How do I find funders for a employment nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to employment in California, currently East Bay Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The James Irvine Foundation. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

How much grant money goes to employment in California?

$1.6B reached 1,459 employment organizations in California, from 3,064 funders. 61% came from funders also based in California.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · California · Employment

Who funds employment in California

Employment funding in California is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Redf leads, and the money reaches 1,459 groups.

$1.6B

granted

1,459

organizations

61%

from in-state

The short version

3,064 funders gave $1.6B to 1,459 employment organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
61% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of employment in California is East Bay Community Foundation, at $81M.
The employment organization drawing the most is Redf, at $91M.

Largest funders of employment in California

The funders giving the most to employment organizations in California, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1East Bay Community Foundation$81M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$72M 3The James Irvine Foundation$69M 4PRIDE Industries$45M 5Kaiser Foundation Hospitals$43M 6Fresno Area Workforce Investment Corporation$40M 7National Philanthropic Trust$36M 8Homeboy Industries$35M 9Silicon Valley Community Foundation$30M 10Tides Foundation$28M

Employment organizations in California that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,449 other employment organizations$1.1B

Redf$91M Summer Search$59M

How to find employment funders in California

1
Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to employment in California are East Bay Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The James Irvine Foundation. A funder already writing employment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
39% of employment money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national employment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a employment nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to employment in California, currently East Bay Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The James Irvine Foundation. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest employment funder in California?: East Bay Community Foundation gives the most to employment organizations in California, $81M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to employment in California?: $1.6B reached 1,459 employment organizations in California, from 3,064 funders. 61% came from funders also based in California.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.