California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,208 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($316,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $911k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $131k
What California Center for Cooperation Development does
Mission
Educating the public, community institutions and government agencies; disseminating information about successful practices and models for cooperatives; encouraging cooperation; providing technical assistance in the formation of cooperatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cooperative Education and Outreach.CCCD provides education about how the co-op business model can be used to create and save jobs, create housing opportunities, offer childcare, help farmers or entrepreneurs join together to gain purchasing power or better compete in the marketplace, increase food security though cooperative owned groceries, and capture other opportunities by working together. We also provide education to groups on democratic governance, leadership, reading and understanding financial statements and related topics. General cooperative education is provided via our website, public outreach, and responding to inquiries.
$430,193 spent47% of program spendingTechnical Assistance.CCCD provides technical assistance in many ways, including development assistance, governance training for co-ops, and cooperative business support. Development assistance includes performing feasibility & business planning, start-up, expansion, and related support. Our work with housing, worker, and farmer cooperatives continues to grow. CCCD helps residents in Manufactured Home Parks to cooperatively purchase their community; through democratic resident control they are able to strengthen their community, stabilize housing costs and optimize their housing security.
$402,733 spent$315,443 earned by the program44% of program spendingCooperative Conferences and Events.In 2025, CCCD convened our annual Agricultural Director and Executive Conference in Visalia, California. Our annual California Co-op Conference also convened in Davis, California. The two-day conference included several panels and workshops, with many of them either presented in Spanish or offering simultaneous interpretation. A suite of workshops offered MCLE credits for attorneys. CCCD staff also presented and participated in conferences and events.
$82,377 spent$65,919 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $915,303.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $324k to $911k (+181%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 75% · 2018 61% · 2019 63% · 2020 63% · 2021 43% · 2022 61% · 2023 39% · 2024 37% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jessica Nelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $24k → $547k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 62% · 2019 97% · 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southern California Focus on Cooperation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT: 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 CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT?
- CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,012,208 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($316,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,012,208 in grants to CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $316,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR COOPERATION DEVELOPMENT 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing