California · Nonprofit
ChangeLab Solutions
ChangeLab Solutions (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,345,077 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($26,930,417). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $49M
- Net assets
- $12M
What ChangeLab Solutions does
Mission
ChangeLab Solutions is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of law and policy to advance health equity. We partner with communities across the nation to improve health and opportunity by changing harmful laws, policies, and systems. Our interdisciplinary team works with community organization, governments, and local institutions to design and implement equitable and practical policy solutions to complex health challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Good Governance: Laws and policies are powerful tools for making our communities healthier and more equitable. A good governance process is inclusive, transparent, and effective, and fosters a clear understanding of policy landscapes, local resources, and potential partnerships. Our resources explain the essentials of public health law and policy that can help create meaningful, lasting change in your community.
$4,442,146 spentof which $684,626 as grants$121,885 earned by the program62% of program spendingHealth Care: Health care systems and hospitals have opportunities to get involved in community public health initiatives. Partnering with advocates and local agencies, providing healthier foods and beverages, and leveraging community benefits allocations from hospitals can help keep people healthy and out of emergency rooms. Our resources can help health care organizations and hospitals work towards community-based prevention of health problems.
$1,398,578 spent$39,252 earned by the program19% of program spendingHealthy Neighborhoods: Evidence shows that where people live plays a key role in their health. Housing, workplaces, street design, and transportation all influence prominent health factors such as safety, physical activity, access to healthy food, community engagement, and affordable living. We provide planning tools that connect the dots between neighborhood resources and help communities achieve their policy goals.
$653,124 spent$18,593 earned by the program9% of program spendingChildren & Families: Creating healthy, safe, and resilience-promoting opportunities for children and families is vital to improve community health. We develop strategies and tools to inform policymakers and communities about policies and programs that support children and families -including supports for children's mental health and resources to help navigate and access supplemental security income. We also work to strengthen family-supportive systems and employment opportunities by focusing on access to paid sick leave and equitable enforcement of worker protections.
$342,330 spent$10,329 earned by the program5% of program spendingFood & Beverages: A healthy diet is key to maintaining good health. Well-designed food systems positively shape the health, environmental, social, and economic outcomes of neighborhoods and communities. We work on a variety of policy strategies that advance health equity through each component of the food system and help ensure access to healthy, affordable foods and beverages.
$273,439 spent$8,264 earned by the program4% of program spendingTobacco Prevention: Limiting access to tobacco products is the first step in preventing tobacco-related diseases. Effective strategies include eliminating the sale of tobacco products to minors, regulating electronic cigarettes, increasing enforcement of existing laws, and reducing exposure to secondhand smoke. We offer a wide range of resources to help communities tailor and implement policy options to regulate tobacco. During 2024-2025, we engaged and provided capacity building and training to more than 22,000 individuals and over 1,000 organizations in more than 1,000 communities across all fifty states and the District of Columbia. We also developed 48 products to further support communities to advance health equity.
$93,646 spent$8,264 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,203,263.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.9M to $16M (+59%).
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: 2017 39% · 2018 17% · 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 14% · 2023 38% · 2024 52% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of ChangeLab Solutions’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Sarah de Guia JD
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Lindsay Wiley JD MPH
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $3.4M → $6.5M.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 ChangeLab Solutions’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
ChangeLab Solutions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 91% · 2019 80% · 2020 32% · 2021 68% · 2022 62% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
36% of ChangeLab Solutions's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
ChangeLab Solutions draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ChangeLab Solutions is better cushioned than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ChangeLab Solutions receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.1M on record — $20.9M federal, $270k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.9M
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$134k
- Other Prof, Sc. & Tech.Svc$102k
- Process,Logistic Consult. Svc$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ChangeLab Solutions
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ChangeLab Solutions: 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 ChangeLab Solutions?
- ChangeLab Solutions (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,345,077 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($26,930,417). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ChangeLab Solutions have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $49,345,077 in grants to ChangeLab Solutions, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ChangeLab Solutions?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,930,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ChangeLab Solutions 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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