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CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,762,692 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($1,300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$59M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
$114M
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($39M) Expenses 100 ($35M) Net assets 100 ($68M)2018 Revenue 117 ($46M) Expenses 109 ($38M) Net assets 105 ($72M)2019 Revenue 236 ($92M) Expenses 120 ($42M) Net assets 185 ($127M)2020 Revenue 117 ($46M) Expenses 191 ($67M) Net assets 159 ($108M)2021 Revenue 127 ($50M) Expenses 112 ($39M) Net assets 175 ($120M)2022 Revenue 131 ($51M) Expenses 143 ($50M) Net assets 154 ($106M)2023 Revenue 149 ($58M) Expenses 159 ($56M) Net assets 165 ($113M)2024 Revenue 150 ($59M) Expenses 174 ($61M) Net assets 166 ($114M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (174)Net assets (166)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.2M
’17
$7.6M
’18
$51M
’19
−$21M
’20
$11M
’21
$989k
’22
$2.6M
’23
−$2.1M
’24
7.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $91k.

From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47%
largest funder
97%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

IL
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

895
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 16 related entities

  • Real Estate Business Services LLC · disregarded
  • Onlineed LLC · disregarded
  • Pathway to Home LLC · disregarded
  • Car Housing Affordability Fund · exempt
  • Car Education Foundation · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS?
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,762,692 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ($1,300,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,762,692 in grants to CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS?
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing