California · Nonprofit
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,932,032 to it, the largest being Tides Center ($2,386,369). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Women Donors Networkshared funders
- California Apartment Associationportfolio match
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $2.7M.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 ENDOWMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 48% · 2022 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Networkshared fundersCA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- California Apartment Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Hospitals and Health Systemsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California State University Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Cotton Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groundswell Fundshared fundersCA · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sugimoto Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arvey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,932,032 to it, the largest being Tides Center ($2,386,369). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,932,032 in grants to THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT?
- Tides Center is the largest funder on record, with $2,386,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT 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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing