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The California Wellness Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49M
Granted FY2024still arriving
681
Grants FY2024still arriving
35
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$77MPhilanthropy$51MCivil Rights$48MCommunity Improvement$40MCrime & Legal$27MEducation$26MHuman Services$26MArts & Culture$13MOther$0
02FY2024 · 681 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k355 grants · $1.0M
  • $10k–50k129 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k105 grants · $13M
  • $250k+92 grants · $33M
$7,500
Median grant
35
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER$1,000,000
CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION$500,000
CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & ENVIRONMENT$500,000
HEALTH LEADS INC$500,000
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC$500,000
BROTHERHOOD OF ELDERS NETWORK$500,000
COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION & TREATMENT$500,000
RESEARCH ACTION DESIGN LLC$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$500,000
BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY$500,000
YOUTH LAW CENTER$500,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$500,000
COMMUNITY WATER CENTER$500,000
STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $37.3M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Inland Counties Regional Center Inc: $250k → 14%KEE CHA-E-NAR CORPORATION: $500k → 17%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $300k → 10%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $300k → 11%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $600k → 14%NATIONAL COMPADRES NETWORK INC: $325k → 8%Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project: $350k → 10%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $500k → 16%NATIONAL COMPADRES NETWORK INC: $300k → 8%WALKING SHIELD INC: $250k → 10%ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE INC: $300k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $300k → 11%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $500k → 11%ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ACTION: $750k → 12%TWO FEATHERS-NAFS: $400k → 18%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $400k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $300k → 11%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $300k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 12%FRESNO COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION: $500k → 19%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $300k → 12%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $800k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $300k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $300k → 10%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $300k → 10%COLEMAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $350k → 10%CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK: $300k → 10%YOUNG WOMENS FREEDOM CENTER: $700k → 10%Tides Center: $500k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $350k → 10%First Place for Youth: $350k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 12%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $500k → 14%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $300k → 14%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $300k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $350k → 10%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $725k → 14%LONG BEACH CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $500k → 14%ONE DEGREE: $450k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $350k → 10%JOVENES INC: $475k → 14%Golden State Opportunity Foundation: $300k → 14%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $350k → 10%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $400k → 14%MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH ACCESS: $300k → 14%BEYOND US & THEM: $300k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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HI
OK
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The California Wellness Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 94%.

The California Wellness Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255M · 769 repeat orgs$83M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

769
951

Total granted

$255M
$75M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+27%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +130%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +266%
  • CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +277%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • DC
    DESTINATION CRENSHAWgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
  • GC
    Grantmakers Concerned w Immigrants & Refugees
    one grant, 2017 · $779k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
2
California Donor Table

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…

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Active San Gabriel Valley

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.

Community Improvement
5
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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6
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

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…

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7
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
8
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
9
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
10
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
11
The California Channel

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…

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12
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

1638 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

87
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
470
Early backer (in before they grew)
1592/1638
Grantees still filing
1102/1638
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $3,530,000 · OtherHEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION: $3,400,000 · OtherCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $3,458,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND: $4,091,667 · Other+78 more: $70,604,617 · Other+78 morePublic Health Institute: $7,293,000 · HealthPublic Health I…SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $2,770,000 · HealthSIERRA HEALTH F…PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $1,855,000 · HealthPUBLIC HEALTH A…California Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $1,755,000 · HealthCalifornia Pan-…CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $1,654,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PRIM…CALIFORNIA COVERAGE & HEALTH INITIATIVES: $1,350,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $1,243,500 · HealthNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC: $1,150,000 · HealthROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $1,000,000 · Health+16 more: $9,913,000 · Health+16 moreEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,824,400 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMM…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,277,122 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA CO…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $2,747,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALI…TIDES FOUNDATION: $1,815,200 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDAT…Social Impact Fund: $1,202,000 · PhilanthropyInland Empire Community Foundation: $1,193,600 · PhilanthropyCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $1,180,000 · PhilanthropyHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $1,123,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,090,100 · Philanthropy+12 more: $7,922,500 · Philanthropy+12 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $6,173,266 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY P…FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $3,250,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN AC…POLICYLINK: $1,835,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINKPOWER CALIFORNIA: $1,520,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIF…COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $1,381,220 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY C…SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSIN…COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $1,060,000 · Community Improvement+10 more: $6,574,400 · Community Improvement+10 moreTIDES CENTER: $3,636,100 · Human ServicesTIDES CENT…LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,688,901 · Human ServicesLATINO COM…IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1,600,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT …CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesCENTER ON …FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $1,050,000 · Human ServicesStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $1,040,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $975,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $975,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $900,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $885,000 · Human ServicesTodec Legal Center Perris: $835,000 · Human ServicesGolden State Opportunity: $825,000 · Human ServicesAsian Pacific Environmental Network Action: $750,000 · Human ServicesMaternal and Child Health Access: $700,000 · Human Services+6 more: $3,515,600 · Human Services+6 moreCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $2,660,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNI…CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $2,505,200 · Civil RightsCALIFORNI…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $2,200,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL …ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $1,250,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE …GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $955,200 · Civil RightsPOWERCA ACTION FKA MOBILIZE THE IMMIGRANT VOTE ACTION: $950,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $900,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $900,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $836,900 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $800,000 · Civil RightsLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $775,750 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $762,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $718,549 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $650,000 · Civil RightsCalMatters: $645,300 · Civil Rights+3 more: $1,776,208 · Civil Rights+3 moreYOUTH LAW CENTER: $1,525,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $1,425,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,369,021 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $1,300,000 · Crime & LegalWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $1,120,102 · Crime & LegalROOT & REBOUND: $1,010,000 · Crime & LegalCenter on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE PASSAGES: $825,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: $755,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $751,420 · Crime & LegalADVANCE PEACE: $750,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $655,300 · Crime & LegalCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $610,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: $590,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BUILD PROGRAM: $550,000 · Crime & LegalEssie Justice Group: $525,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$85,084,284Health$29,983,500Philanthropy$26,474,922Community Improvement$23,143,886Human Services$20,575,601Civil Rights$19,285,107Crime & Legal$14,760,843

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPublic Health Institute: $7,293,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $6,173,266 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $4,091,667 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,824,400 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $3,636,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $3,458,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION: $3,400,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,277,122 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $3,250,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $2,770,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $2,747,000 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,685,477 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $2,660,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $2,505,200 over 6y, 14% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $2,290,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $2,200,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER: $2,200,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $1,855,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $1,835,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $1,835,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $1,815,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $1,755,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,688,901 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $1,654,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1,600,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA: $1,525,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetYOUTH LAW CENTER: $1,525,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA: $1,520,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $1,450,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $1,425,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $1,381,220 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,369,021 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION: $1,350,300 over 4y, 21% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $1,350,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCALIFORNIA COVERAGE & HEALTH INITIATIVES: $1,350,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,350,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $1,300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $1,300,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $1,250,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $1,243,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC: $1,235,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $1,202,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $1,200,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $1,193,600 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $1,180,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $1,160,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC: $1,150,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $1,123,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 POLICYLINK ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH LAW CENTER ↗
  • 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 CALIFORNIA COVERAGE & HEALTH INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The California Endowm…Sierra Health Foundat…Weingart FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…California Physicians…Women's Foundation of…Latino Community Foun…Liberty Hill Foundati…Stupski FoundationCalifornia Healthcare…Evelyn and Walter Haa…The Ralph M Parsons F…
The California EndowmentCA176.4× affinity490 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The California Wellness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The California Wellness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Cfleads: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
80report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1931 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home