California · Nonprofit
Californians Against Waste
Californians Against Waste (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,350 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($117,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Californialocalportfolio match
- California Association of Hospitals and Health Systemslocalportfolio match
- Energy Action Fundshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $135k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Californians Against Waste’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
Californians Against Waste leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Californians Against Waste.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 59% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of Californians Against Waste'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 $89k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Californialocalportfolio matchCA · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Hospitals and Health Systemslocalportfolio matchCA · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Energy Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Center for International Environmental Law Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environment Nowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cygnet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California ReLeafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nrdc Action Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Domestic Workers of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Apartment Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Realtors Issues Mobilization Political Action Comportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Californians Against Waste
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Californians Against Waste: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Californians Against Waste?
- Californians Against Waste (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,350 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($117,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Californians Against Waste have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $206,350 in grants to Californians Against Waste, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Californians Against Waste?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $117,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Californians Against Waste 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing