California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,200 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $-143693
What California Center for Public Policy does
Mission
The ccpp was a leader in promoting district elections efforts in the stateof california through reports, media, and contacts to elected and nonprofitleaders. The ccpp played a leading role in the transition of a number ofgovernment agencies from at-large to district elections representing tensof thousands of people in the state.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The ccpp was a leader in promoting district elections efforts in the state of california through reports, media, and contacts to elected and nonprofit leaders. The ccpp played a leading role in the transition of a number of government agencies from at-large to district elections representing tens of thousands of people in the state.
$27,854 spent60% of program spendingThe ccpp was involved with efforts to improve community center programs in the santa barbara-goleta area, including acquisition of maintenance and transportation facility.
$14,700 spent31% of program spendingThe ccpp wrote letters and reports with educational information on environmental and historic impacts of proposed designation of a county park as a historic landmark and development of a historic plaza.
$4,200 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,754.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $7 (−100%).
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.
36% of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Joe Armendariz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 PUBLIC POLICY’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 PUBLIC POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 PUBLIC POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 PUBLIC POLICY has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: 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 PUBLIC POLICY?
- CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,200 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $74,200 in grants to CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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