How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to human services in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

Who is the largest human services funder in California?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to human services organizations in California, $338M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to human services in California?

$7.4B reached 5,935 human services organizations in California, from 12,208 funders. 59% 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 · Human services

Who funds human services in California

Human services funding in California is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles leads, and the money reaches 5,935 groups.

$7.4B

granted

5,935

organizations

59%

from in-state

The short version

12,208 funders gave $7.4B to 5,935 human services organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
59% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of human services in California is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $338M.
The human services organization drawing the most is Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles, at $187M.

Largest funders of human services in California

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$338M 2Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc$221M 3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$177M 4National Philanthropic Trust$173M 5Catholic Charities of California$150M 6Silicon Valley Community Foundation$115M 7Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation$99M 8American Online Giving Foundation Inc$97M 9Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$95M 10Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc$82M

Human services organizations in California that draw the most

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

5,925 other human services organizations$6.0B

How to find human services funders in California

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Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to human services in California are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. A funder already writing human services checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the human services 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
41% of human services money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national human services funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a human services nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to human services in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the human services organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest human services funder in California?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to human services organizations in California, $338M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to human services in California?: $7.4B reached 5,935 human services organizations in California, from 12,208 funders. 59% 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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

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.