· Private foundation
The California Wellness Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k355 grants · $1.0M
- $10k–50k129 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k105 grants · $13M
- $250k+92 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION & TREATMENT | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION | $500,000 |
| BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY | $500,000 |
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC | $500,000 |
| YOUTH LAW CENTER | $500,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY WATER CENTER | $500,000 |
| KEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION | $500,000 |
| CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & ENVIRONMENT | $500,000 |
| CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION | $500,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $500,000 |
| HEALTH LEADS INC | $500,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $37.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The California Wellness Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 94% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
769 repeat relationships — 335 still active in FY2024, 434 since wound down; 153 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Public Health Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +130%- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +266%
CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE6× · 2017–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +277%
Funded once
- DCDESTINATION CRENSHAWgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- GCGrantmakers Concerned w Immigrants & Refugeesone grant, 2017 · $779k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
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.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
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.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Finally Home Rescue. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1638 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1638 of the 1,931 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Pan-Ethnic Health Network ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds POWER CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION ↗
- Who funds SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COVERAGE & HEALTH INITIATIVES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Women's Foundation of California · Latino Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Stupski Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
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 organization The California Wellness Foundation 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.
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Cfleads — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.