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The California Endowment Grants

Private foundation · EIN 95-4523232 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2024

Total grants paid
$357.4M
Grants reported
1,970
Typical grant
$100K
Future commitments

Reported commitments not yet paid.

$252.5M

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Original filing text

Reported organization name: THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT

Giving by tax year

Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.

Tax yearGrants paidAmount
2024845$141.5M
20231,125$215.9M

Where The California Endowment gives

States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.

Largest reported grants

Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.

San Francisco Foundation

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

$9.8MTax year 2023

Grant purpose

Catalyzing california's narrative infrastructure to advance health justice: to advance health justice for all californians by developing robust health justice metrics and growing narrative infrastructure and capacity.

California Primary Care Association

SACRAMENTO, CA

$3.5MTax year 2023

Grant purpose

Supporting civic engagement capacity in health community: to build and establish a new infrastructure to support ongoing statewide civic engagement capacity, with the goal of comprehensively reaching community health center (chc) patients, staff and communities in an efficient and sustainable way that considers feasibility, long term sustainability, and power and capacity building needs in california.

Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science

LOS ANGELES, CA

$2.8MTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Promoting diversity and social consciousness within healthcare

California Primary Care Association

SACRAMENTO, CA

$2.6MTax year 2023

Grant purpose

Strengthening community health center infrastructure to advance health: to support a project that bridges community clinics, health centers, and networks to communities through advocacy, education, and civic engagement to improve health equity across california.

California Primary Care Association

SACRAMENTO, CA

$2.6MTax year 2024

Grant purpose

Strengthening community health center infrastructure to advance health

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About this data

Figures are aggregated from The California Endowment's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2024). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.

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