California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER
CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,553,919 to it, the largest being THE SOBRATO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,090,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Californians Together does
Mission
Californians Together aims for an educational system that is funded and structured so every child will have full access to a high quality 21st century education and will graduate from our public schools fully prepared for success in college and career and full civic participation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Californians Together is a statewide coalition of parents, teachers, education advocates, and civil rights groups committed to securing equal access to quality education for all children. During the year the group focused on its mission to work towards an educational system that is funded and structured so every child will have full access to high quality education and will graduate from our public schools fully prepared for success in college and career and full civic participation. The organization worked with other organizations to foster full participation in a democratic society through qualify education for children and parents from underserved communities
$2,327,223 spent$2,122,746 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,327,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $6.0M (+23%).
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: 2021 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Martha M Hernandez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $149k → $2.1M.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 TOGETHER’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 TOGETHER 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 36% · 2019 37% · 2020 50% · 2021 34% · 2022 49% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
54% of CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
77% of CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER
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
81% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: 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 TOGETHER?
- CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,553,919 to it, the largest being THE SOBRATO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,090,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $9,553,919 in grants to CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER?
- THE SOBRATO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,090,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 22 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