California · Nonprofit
Northern California Grantmakers
Northern California Grantmakers (California) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,580,990 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,329,500). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Northern California Grantmakers does
Mission
regions most pressing social issues. We pool resources, share information, work together, and learn from each other. NCG recognizes that the challenges facing our communities are complex, entrenched and interconnected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
in community-based organizations that are committed to achieving that goal.Leadership and Organizational Culture-------------------------------------NCG attends to the individuals and institutions making things happen with a consistent focus on equity and social justice. This includes supporting individual skill and professional development; cultivating executive leadership as well as the next generation of sector leaders; focusing on the internal culture and practices of philanthropic institutions; and nurturing a thriving, sector-wide community that is rooted in a strong sense of shared purpose, committed to continual growth and learning, and making time to inspire and celebrate one another.
$5,431,089 spentof which $396,500 as grants$1,088,550 earned by the program100% of program spendingMember Engagement-----------------NCG welcomes people across philanthropy into our community of learners, practitioners, and change-makers, making connections to help address issues and inequities in communities across the region. We operate a range of professional development, collaborative facilitation and educational programs for members that build community, address contemporary issues, and help Grantmakers review and improve their practice.Racial Equity and Social Justice--------------------------------
NCG partners with our member colleagues and other organizations to advance social justice and address race, gender and inequity in our community. Working together with people in philanthropy, government, business and our communities we advocate using our resources and our influence to advance social justice.Sharpened Philanthropic Practice--------------------------------NCG builds networks with our member colleagues and other community stakeholders through programming, services, convening and policy work that moves philanthropy toward an intentional focus on achieving equity in our communities. Focus includes support for social and economic inclusion for all residents and increased investment
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,431,089.
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 $8.0M to $5.1M (−36%).
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: 2019 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Northern California Grantmakers’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Dwayne S Marsh
President & CEO
Board chair
Cecilia Chen
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $3.2M.
15 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Northern California Grantmakers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 funders by total. 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
Northern California Grantmakers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 15% · 2019 12% · 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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
60% of Northern California Grantmakers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
89% of Northern California Grantmakers's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Northern California Grantmakers has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Northern California Grantmakers
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
89%
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 Northern California Grantmakers: 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 Northern California Grantmakers?
- Northern California Grantmakers (California) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,580,990 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($2,329,500). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern California Grantmakers have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $25,580,990 in grants to Northern California Grantmakers, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern California Grantmakers?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $2,329,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern California Grantmakers 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 93 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing