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The PG&E Corporation Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2023
316
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE PG&E CORPORATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 316 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 316 grants below total $14,840,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,365,835 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,525,335 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k118 grants · $526k
  • $10k–50k131 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+15 grants · $7.4M
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
California Fire Foundation$900,000
California Restaurant Foundation$900,000
YourCause, LLC$663,098
YourCause, LLC$656,586
Golden State Warriors Community Foundation$586,500
League Of California Community Foundations$500,000
YourCause, LLC$500,000
YourCause, LLC$470,906
American National Red Cross$450,000
Golden State Warriors Community Foundation$393,500
Scholarship America Inc$350,000
YourCause, LLC$276,457
CorpsGiving Foundation$250,000
National Energy Education Development Project, Inc.$250,000
Bay Area Council Foundation$250,000
02Your 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 182 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

182 repeat relationships — 182 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

182
82

Total granted

$23M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & 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

  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +8%
  • CR
    CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +1% · 28% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • JM
    John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • CC
    CENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -15%
  • 4S
    4th Secondgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +200%

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

03Your 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.

1
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
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Solano Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

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6
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
7
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
8
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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9
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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10
Stanislaus Community Foundation

The vision of Stanislaus Community Foundation is that Stanislaus County is a community of choice where people live, work and thrive. To achieve this vision, Stanislaus Community Foundation's mission is to steward charitable resources and…

Philanthropy
11
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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12
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Surfing for Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUrban Agriculture EducationCommunity Theater CompaniesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Construc…Senior Support ServicesGirls Stem Education Progra…Asian American Civic & Cult…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Professional Dance CompaniesVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Hospital SystemsGovernment Accountability &…Community Arts CentersChildhood Cancer SupportClassical Music OrchestrasHospice and Palliative CareLocal History MuseumsWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Lgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Charter and Independent Sch…Youth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsEducation Equity InitiativesVolunteer Fire & RescueFood Pantries and AssistancePublic School District Foun…Environmental Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCollege Foundation Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%15%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/336
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,642

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.

03the grantee network

315 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. 315 of the 365 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
310/315
Grantees still filing
198/315
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YourCause, LLC — $5,686,300 · OtherYourCause, LLCCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $1,800,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INCScholarship America Inc — $926,000 · OtherScholarship America Inc+88 more — $5,563,645 · Other+88 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…BAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA C…SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCI…LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COM…LEND A HAND FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Human ServicesMadera County Sheriffs Foundation — $105,125 · Human ServicesSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $100,000 · Human Services4th Second — $100,000 · Human Services+14 more — $442,380 · Human Services+14 moreOAKLAND PROMISE — $400,000 · EducationOAKLAND PR…THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAN…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationNORTHEASTE…CYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER — $249,000 · EducationCYPRESS MA…10000 DEGREES — $200,000 · Education10000 DEGR…CONSTRUCTION TRADES WORKFORCE INITIATIVE — $175,000 · EducationCONSTRUCTI…Peralta Colleges Foundation — $100,000 · EducationLIVE EARTH FARM DISCOVERY PROGRAM — $100,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Education+17 more — $546,495 · Education+17 moreNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $900,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $480,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe Park Theater Trust — $100,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE MANILA RISING — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $343,000 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,960,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more — $120,000 · Recreation & SportsCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION — $650,000 · PhilanthropyLEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation — $120,000 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPlacer Community Foundation — $70,000 · PhilanthropyEl Dorado Community Foundation — $70,000 · Philanthropy+10 more — $293,960 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $115,150 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — $110,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $92,880 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $84,585 · Food & NutritionTHE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK — $72,270 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $44,590 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC — $43,425 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $40,210 · Food & NutritionYOLO FOOD BANK — $38,105 · Food & NutritionYuba Sutter Gleaners Food Bank Inc — $38,055 · Food & NutritionFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $37,800 · Food & NutritionHANDS ACROSS THE VALLEY INC GEORGE ALTAMURA SR — $37,325 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of El Dorado County — $35,205 · Food & Nutrition+9 more — $233,630 · Food & Nutrition
Other$15,775,945Human Services$2,722,505Education$2,570,495Arts & Culture$2,173,000Recreation & Sports$2,080,000Philanthropy$2,028,960Food & Nutrition$1,023,230

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,960,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $1,800,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $900,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS — $500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $480,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE — $400,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $275,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER — $249,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget10000 DEGREES — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONSTRUCTION TRADES WORKFORCE INITIATIVE — $175,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLos Rios Colleges Foundation — $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $145,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLEND A HAND FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCommunity Action Agency of Butte County Inc — $123,690 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $115,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILD NORTH BAY FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMadera County Sheriffs Foundation — $105,125 over 2y, 30% of budgetPeralta Colleges Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetThe Park Theater Trust — $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMarine Science Institute — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLIVE EARTH FARM DISCOVERY PROGRAM — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLITTLE MANILA RISING — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budget4th Second — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTION FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 71% of budget
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.

California Foundation…California Associatio…Calfoods LogisticsKaiser Foundation Hos…Sierra Health Foundat…McNabb FoundationThe California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…The James Irvine Foun…The San Francisco Fou…The California Wellne…Sierra Health Foundat…
California Foundation for Stronger CommunitiesCA60× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Foundation for Stronger Communities · California Association of Food Banks · Calfoods Logistics · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · McNabb Foundation · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Sierra Health 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The PG&E Corporation Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The PG&E Corporation Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 365 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $14M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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