California · Nonprofit
PICO California
PICO California (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,205,232 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($5,500,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $18M
What PICO California does
Mission
Our vision is a Moral Economy for California which includes structural campaigns that result in significant material improvements for the most vulnerable Californians: making affordable and dignified housing a human right, reducing the number of people incarcerated and increasing job and housing opportunities for those returning home, creating conditions for low-income workers to thrive in family-sustaining jobs, funding schools and communities more than law enforcement and prisons, ensuring inclusion of all immigrants and refugees, and creating a government that is effective in caring for all Californias.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, PICO California organized a statewide, multi-racial, multi-faith movement to address racial and economic injustice across 18 counties. Through deep community relationships, the organization equipped and supported 16,155 grassroots faith and spiritual leaders who engaged 220,311 Californians in public life to build power and create change in their communities.Key accomplishments included: - Reached over 81,000 devout and diverse voters through relational outreach, voter education, and public events across every county, assembly, and senate district in California. - Held nonpartisan candidate forums and organized research meetings and public actions with local and state decision-makers. - Supported nearly 80 congregations working to develop affordable housing on land owned by faith institutions. - Educated renters and organized tenant leaders to protect families from displacement and ensure safe, dignified housing for low-income communities. - Organized campaigns that resulted in new local housing programs and protections for farmworker families and low-income residents. - Helped reduce gun violence through continued leadership in the Ceasefire Partnership and mobilized…
$5,206,186 spentof which $1,248,310 as grants$273,788 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,206,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.8M to $22M (+1071%).
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.
91% of PICO California’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. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Joy Johnson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $50k → $7.2M.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PICO California’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
PICO California has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% 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 PICO California.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — 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
71% of PICO California's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
91% of PICO California's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PICO California holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PICO California
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 PICO California: 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 PICO California?
- PICO California (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,205,232 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($5,500,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PICO California have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $29,205,232 in grants to PICO California, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PICO California?
- CRANKSTART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PICO California 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 35 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