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Valley Clean Air Now

Valley CAN is committed to improving air quality in California's San Joaquin Valley.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$103k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.4MEnvironment$1.0MCommunity Improvement$69kYouth Development$55kScience & Tech$25kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$103,217
Median grant
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States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charge Across Town$103,217
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Charge Across Town: $214k → 10%Env Just Coalition for Water: $55k → 12%Redeemer Comm Partnership: $55k → 14%Charge Accross Town: $212k → 10%Env Just Coalition for Water: $25k → 12%The Regents of the UC: $25k → 14%Charge Across Town: $121k → 10%Energy Independence Now: $40k → 14%Charge Across Town: $103k → 10%Latino & Latina Roundable: $15k → 14%Charge Across Town: $72k → 10%Liberty Hill Foundation: $1.4M → 14%Charge Accross Town: $53k → 10%Coalition for Clean Air: $50k → 14%Rebel Pymts Mobility & Insig: $50k → 10%Coalition for Clean Air: $11k → 14%Rebel Pymts Mobility & Insig: $10k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$975k · 4 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$975k
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
0%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CA
    CHARGE ACROSS TOWN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $774k · revenue +451% · 47% of their budget
  • EJ
    ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION FOR WATER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k
  • CF
    Coalition for Clean Air
    2× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • RC
    Redeemer Community Partnership
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -24%
  • MM
    Maritz Motivation
    one grant, 2023 · $54k
  • EI
    ENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
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.

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Valley Clean Air Now

Valley CAN is committed to improving air quality in California's San Joaquin Valley. We promote voluntary actions to reduce air polution and sponsor pilot programs and educational efforts dedicated to providing solutions to high emissions…

Environment
2
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
3
Environmental Health Coalition

The Environmental Health Coalition is dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice. We believe that justice is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change. We organize and advocate to protect…

Environment
4
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
5
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies

CEERT designs and fights for policies that advance clean, renewable, energy and climate solutions for California and the West. CEERT's team of professional staff, active board members, expert consultants, and clean-technology and…

Environment
6
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
7
California Energy Alliance

The California Energy Alliance (CEA) unites representatives of a broad range of organizations concerned about energy and the build environment. As a member-based organization, CEA works to improve California's energy future and migration…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Central Valley Partnership

The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…

Civil Rights
9
California Electric Transportation Coalition

To promote cleaner, healthier air through the development and use of zero-emission electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, electric mass transit buses, and rail.

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10
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
11
California Bicycle Coalition

The mission of the California Bicycle Coalition is to advocate for equitable, inclusive, and prosperous communities where bicycling helps to enable all Californians to lead healthy and joyful lives.

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12
Energy Justice Law and Policy Center

The organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charge Across Town; the most unlike its peers is Latino and Latina Rountable of the San Gabriel & Pomona Valleys. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $1,406,540 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATIONCHARGE ACROSS TOWN: $774,475 · EnvironmentCHARGE ACROSS TOWNCoalition for Clean Air: $60,898 · EnvironmentCoalition for Clean AirENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION FOR WATER: $80,000 · OtherENVIRONME…Rebel Pymts Mobility & Insig: $60,000 · OtherRebel Pym…Maritz Motivation: $53,700 · OtherMaritz Mo…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS U…Redeemer Community Partnership: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION: $40,000 · Public BenefitLATINO AND LATINA ROUNTABLE OF THE SAN GABRIEL & POMONA VALLEYS: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTodec Legal Center Perris: $10,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,406,540Environment$835,373Other$218,700Youth Development$55,000Public Benefit$40,000Community Improvement$15,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $1,406,540 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHARGE ACROSS TOWN: $774,475 over 6y, 47% of budgetCoalition for Clean Air: $60,898 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRedeemer Community Partnership: $55,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLATINO AND LATINA ROUNTABLE OF THE SAN GABRIEL & POMONA VALLEYS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTodec Legal Center Perris: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Liberty Hill Foundati…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Liberty Hill FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Valley Clean Air Now funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley Clean Air Now. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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