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

Start with the funders already giving to health in California, currently City of Hope, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the health organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

Who is the largest health funder in California?

City of Hope gives the most to health organizations in California, $1.8B across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to health in California?

$27.6B reached 7,326 health organizations in California, from 17,448 funders. 73% 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 · Health

Who funds health in California

Health funding in California is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though University of California San Francisco Foundation leads, and the money reaches 7,326 groups.

$27.6B

granted

7,326

organizations

73%

from in-state

The short version

17,448 funders gave $27.6B to 7,326 health organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
73% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of health in California is City of Hope, at $1.8B.
The health organization drawing the most is University of California San Francisco Foundation, at $1.7B.

Largest funders of health in California

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

1City of Hope$1.8B 2Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$971M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$918M 4John Muir Health$803M 5Silicon Valley Community Foundation$739M 6Gerson Bakar Foundation$641M 7Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$523M 8Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego$509M 9Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula$492M 10Stanford Health Care$462M

Health organizations in California that draw the most

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

7,316 other health organizations$19B

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$1.5B

How to find health funders in California

1
Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to health in California are City of Hope, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing health checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the health 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
28% of health money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national health funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a health nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to health in California, currently City of Hope, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the health organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest health funder in California?: City of Hope gives the most to health organizations in California, $1.8B across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to health in California?: $27.6B reached 7,326 health organizations in California, from 17,448 funders. 73% 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.