How much did THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT grant in FY2024?

Community Improvement$157MPhilanthropy$140MHuman Services$105MCivil Rights$97MHealth$93MEducation$71MArts & Culture$46MPublic Benefit$41MCrime & Legal$33MOther$460M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

health affectedconference conveningsteering committeefestivalgalahealing transgenderleadership sharing

2020

health censusproviders faithgroups system-impactedsystem-impacted processdevelop planplan scalingscaling health-promoting

2021

elevated riskrisk vulnerabilityvulnerability covidstrengthen addressstrategic covidcalifornias vulnerablebasic elevated

2022

hate violenceafghanislander hateperspectives long-termwell perspectivesdialogue reflectivereflective diverse

2023

south region'swellness lgbtqownership housingaddress youthequitable reproductiveseeking reproductivereproductive sexual

2024

bipocland accesssafety securitydevelop signalssignals progressprogress buildingbuilding durable

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1578 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k122 grants · $218k
$10k–50k366 grants · $8.2M
$50k–250k787 grants · $90M
$250k+303 grants · $195M

$99,461

Median grant

States reached

$4.5B

Total assets

Largest grants

SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$9,775,125
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION$3,479,999
CHARLES DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$2,815,000
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION$2,600,000
CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND$2,500,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$2,391,139
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,375,000
PICO CALIFORNIA$2,200,000
LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION$2,083,193
THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP$2,000,000
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM$2,000,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$2,000,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $52.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2B · 1177 repeat orgs$63M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

1177 repeat relationships — 649 still active in FY2024, 528 since wound down; 189 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1177

634

Total granted

$1.2B

$38M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%

+56%

Still filing today

80%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
7× · 2018–2024 · $26M · revenue +278%
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
7× · 2018–2024 · $24M · revenue +130%
CC
CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND
7× · 2018–2024 · $18M · revenue +43% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

TR
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
one grant, 2023 · $5.3M
AP
ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE INC
one grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue -12%
PN
PICO NATIONAL NETWORK
one grant, 2018 · $1.9M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

Central Coast Alliance United for a

To build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement

El Concilio California

Empowering diverse communities in california's central valley.

Human Services

Just Communities Central Coast

Just Communities Central Coast advances justice by building leadership, fostering change, and dismantling all forms of prejudice, discrimination and oppression.

Civil Rights

Statewide California Coalition

The New California Coalition (NCC) is a forward-thinking organization with a bold mission: to identify and implement solutions that will pave the way for enduring, generational change in Sacramento and across the entire state of California.

Public Benefit

California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

Institute for Public Strategies

to work alongside communities to build power, challenge systems of injustice, protect health, and improve quality of life.

Health

Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem. We embed legal navigation support in community-based settings by training and supporting frontline partners.

Crime & Legal

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech

California Coastkeeper

California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Occidental College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%19/1,675

the rest of the field

12%

20,783/173,253

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

1574 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

198

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

636

Early backer (in before they grew)

1513/1574

Grantees still filing

1188/1574

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$580,555,040Community Improvement$156,840,719Philanthropy$140,093,586Human Services$105,261,366Civil Rights$96,557,556Health$92,658,911Education$71,012,074

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The California Wellness FoundationCA180.3× affinity440 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Wellness Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · California Healthcare Foundation · Women's Foundation of California

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CALIFORNIA URBAN PARTNERSHIP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 450842476 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CALIFORNIA URBAN PARTNERSHIP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The California Endowment?

Find your warmest path to The California Endowment through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines