California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY
CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Californians for Retirement Security does
Mission
Advocate for the retirement security of all californians
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Advocated for protection of public employees' pension rights
$45,385 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,385.
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 2022 to 2023, from $291k to $219k (−25%).
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.
0% of CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY’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 FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 33% · 2022 100% — 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
CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY has grown faster than half of the 1,043 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY: 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 CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY?
- CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIANS FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY 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 3 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