California · Nonprofit
THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,500 to it, the largest being PHRMA CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE FUND ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $983k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What The California Business Roundtable does
Mission
The California Business Roundtable is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization composed of chief executive officers of leading california businesses. Since 1976, the roundtable has provided essential leadership on high-priority public policy issues. Through its "big picture," proactive focus on key business issues, combined with the prestige and influence of its members, the roundtable is a powerful and compelling advocate for a strong economy and a healthy business climate in california.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
California business climate: advocated in the california legislature and with key opinion leaders the importances of a strong and resilient california economy. Took positions on legislation, spoke to the media, issued press releases, and informed our members of policies and political actions that would affect businesses' ability to grow and hire in california.
Affordability: served as a counterbalance to efforts within the legislature that increase costs on working californians. From housing to healthcare, numerous proposals would have placed even higher cost burdens on working californians. Highlighted the importance of predictable tax policy and the impact of energy policy on the cost of living.
Economic recovery: quantified the state's economic recovery in key contexts, including the lack of private sector job growth. Provided key data to legislators and the public about barriers to economic recovery, job loss, and business relocation.
Energy affordability: continued to be a voice for affordability and reliability with respect to california energy policies through care coalition leadership. Used data from the center for jobs and the economy to oppose major pieces of legislation that would have negatively impacted energy costs.
International trade and goods movement: supported efforts at the federal level to increase free and fair international trade. Advocated for a resilient goods movement sector, including hosting national meetings regarding the state's ports and their importance both nationally and internationally. Also worked on trade issues at the state level, including the impact of major climate change regulations.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $2.1M to $3.3M (+56%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $458k → $25k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles Issues PAC). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE’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
THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
53% 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 THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Organizations like THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Center for Jobs and the Economy · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE: 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 THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE?
- THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,500 to it, the largest being PHRMA CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE FUND ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $982,500 in grants to THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE?
- PHRMA CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE 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 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