California foundations

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There are 16,176 foundations and grantmaking organizations in California. Combined, these Californianfoundations employ 5,590 people, earn more than $31 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $174 billion.

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Types of foundations in California

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Private foundations	12,516	950	$19,458,711,819	$128,659,139,116
Grantmaking public charity foundations	2,022	2,915	$10,997,520,927	$44,830,980,407
Organizations supporting multiple foundations	355	33	$21,315,225	$27,490,099
Community foundations	308	1,451	$3,651,936,496	$18,906,035,651
Corporate foundations	164	0	$830,299,608	$11,370,203,128
Organizations supporting a single foundation	74	0	$58,896,357	$434,281,215
Foundation alliances and advocates	17	159	$43,935,421	$44,214,367
Foundation professional societies	15	0	$147,928	$195,705
Foundation technical and management assistance providers	7	862	$33,768,526	$12,707,643
Foundation research and public policy institutes	2	0	$0	$0

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Foundations by major California cities

Metro area	Nonprofits	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Los Angeles	6,552	963	$6,467,745,431	$55,509,902,329
San Francisco	2,867	2,144	$14,260,653,243	$63,455,512,382
San Jose	1,463	411	$7,540,200,527	$38,785,225,836
San Diego	1,312	270	$844,623,695	$5,196,401,772
Riverside	839	618	$223,964,063	$2,347,449,868
Sacramento	658	310	$135,534,719	$1,061,327,978
Santa Maria	340	133	$310,893,337	$2,001,208,868
Oxnard	279	43	$242,541,712	$1,121,954,270
Santa Rosa	222	49	$104,406,080	$648,160,009
Fresno	172	75	$39,636,554	$272,261,981

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Job trends for California foundations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	1,083
1-10	185
11-25	44
26-100	38
101 to 1,000	8
1,000+	0

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in California foundations is driven by large organizations like Playworks, National Community Renaissance of Northern California, Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), Community Initiatives, and Giant Community Fund.

Sizes of foundations in California

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	8,838
$250k to $1M	1,663
$1M to $5M	1,045
$5M to $25M	322
$25M to $100M	101
$100M+	33

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Schwab Charitable Fund, Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, Genentech Access To Care Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), and J Paul Getty Trust earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in California foundations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 4.0% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in California foundations with more than $100 million account for 63.0% of nonprofit earnings.

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Skoll Foundation

The Skoll Foundation drives large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world's most pressing problems.

Revenue

$24.1m

Assets

$579.8m

Employees

N/A

EIN

11-3659133

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Foundation is dedicated to improving life outcomes for young people through education. They work to ensure that effective education systems in California and Washington provide opportunities for all students to learn, achieve, and thrive.

Revenue

$37.2m

Assets

$398.7m

Employees

N/A

EIN

20-0882784

IRS type

501(c)(3)

ClimateWorks Foundation

To mobilize philanthropy to solve the climate crisis and ensure a prosperous future. To mobilize philanthropy to help solve the climate crisis and ensure a prosperous future. To end the climate crisis by amplifying the power of philanthropy.

Revenue

$93.6m

Assets

$203.7m

Employees

EIN

26-2303250

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

To help nations grow while addressing increasingly scarce resources and climate risk. This is a complex challenge in which policy plays a crucial role.

Revenue

$13.8m

Assets

$21.4m

Employees

N/A

EIN

26-4129153

IRS type

501(c)(3)

California Community Foundation

Ccf has served as a public Foundation for greater los angeles since 1915. Its role continues to evolve, balancing a long-term perspective with responsiveness to immediate issues in the Community. It serves as a facilitator of meaningful and strategic ch...

Revenue

$440.1m

Assets

$1.7b

Employees

EIN

95-3510055

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Koret Foundation

The Koret Foundation is a private foundation based in San Francisco, committed to strengthening the Bay Area community and nurturing the continuity of the Jewish people worldwide.

Revenue

$30.2m

Assets

$225.7m

Employees

N/A

EIN

94-1624987

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Salesforce Com Foundation

Salesforce Com Foundation is a private foundation in San Francisco, CA, which was founded in 1999 and most recently had $2,364,547 in revenue and no employees.

Revenue

$2.4m

Assets

$7.6m

Employees

EIN

94-3347800

IRS type

501(c)(3)

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world.

Revenue

$609.1m

Assets

$9.8b

Employees

N/A

EIN

94-1655673

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a family foundation established in 1944 by the man who started Hilton Hotels. They provide funds to nonprofit organizations working to improve the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the world.

Revenue

$172.3m

Assets

$2.8b

Employees

N/A

EIN

94-3100217

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Rady Children's Hospital Foundation

Rady Children's Hospital Foundation's mission is to be responsible for developing, accepting and recognizing philanthropy in support of Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and its subsidiary corporations.

Revenue

$51.0m

Assets

$26.7m

Employees

EIN

33-0170626

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990 or 990PF with the IRS. We exclude Form 990EZ and Postcard filers, which are high in number but very small in size. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

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