California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,318 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ($227,318). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $707k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What California Medical Association does
Mission
The California Medical Association, Inc. (CMA) is a voluntary, not-for-profit mutual benefit corporation which promotes the science and art of medicine, the protection of public health, the betterment of the medical profession, and to achieve health equity and justice. CMA serves its members through a comprehensive program of legislative, legal, regulatory, economic and social advocacy and member benefit programs. The value proposition of the organization emphasizes empowering physicians to lead the transformation of the health care system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, CMA won at the ballot box by securing passage of Proposition 35, a historic investment in Medi-Cal that provides the first across-the-board rate increase for physicians and dedicates funding to improve access to care for the millions of seniors, children, low-income families and people with disabilities in our state. Passage of Proposition 1 expanded funding for mental heath and addiction treatment, including investments in the health care workforce. In addition, many physicians were protected from huge tax and fee increases by defeating Measure C in Sacramento.
In 2024, CMA focused on codifying physician priorities with more than 115 supported bills signed into law. The organization also stopped 24 opposed bills and 23 problematic ones in the Legislature. Key victories included legislation to: ensure artificial intelligence does not take the place of physicians; provide new tools for health care workers assisting victims of domestic violence and human trafficking; reduce mental health stigma for physicians through changes to the medical board's licensure application; and create parity in penalties for violence against healthcare workers in emergency departments.
CMA supported physician practices during a devasting cyberattack that resulted in nationwide outages that threatened the viability of physician practices. CMA successfully advocated for advance payments and interest-free financial resources to keep practice doors open. Additionally, CMA stepped in to stop a Blue Shield modifier 25 policy that would have significantly reduced reimbursement for Evaluation and Management services and created a disincentive for physicians to provide efficient care for unscheduled services. CMA filed a lawsuit against the Department of Managed Health Care for failing to enforce California's prompt payment regulations in implementing SB 510, which resulted in significant delays and reductions in reimbursements.
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $35M to $45M (+27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Sergio R Flores MD
Chair, Board of Trustees
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $50k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Medical Association Properties Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’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 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 72% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
0% of CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 23% 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
93% of CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 11 related entities
- CMA Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Medical Society Services LLC · disregarded
- California Medical Association Properties · exempt
- Physicians for a Healthy California · exempt
- CALPAC - California Medical Association PAC · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: 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 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION?
- CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,318 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ($227,318). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $707,318 in grants to CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION?
- CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $227,318 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 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 13 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