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California Healthcare Foundation

Oakland, CA · EIN 95-4523231. Reported 1,111 grants totalling $140.4M to 573 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
2. How spread out its giving is. 573 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
3. How much its list changes. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $45,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,850 and $120,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $2,956,867. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

All 573 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this grantmaker actually has a relationship with.

308 of 573 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• University of California San Francisco $2,956,867 · 2023
  MATERNAL INFANT HEALTH ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTANDING AND MONITORING PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH.; PATIENTS FOR PRIMARY CARE; NURSING ADVISING RESOURCES; CONNECTED CARE ACCELERATOR DATA COLLECTION EXTENSION; CALIFORNIA HEALTH WORKFORCE DATA GAPS; OPTIMIZING THE PRIMARY CARE TEAM WORKFORCE: PHASE I PLANNING; CONNECTED CARE ACCELERATOR EQUITY COLLABORATIVE; DISSEMINATION OF E-LEARNING MODULE FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN PRIMARY CARE SAFETY NET SETTINGS; PLANNING PROJECT: EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR CALIFORNIA STATE AGENCIES; UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF AB890: SETTING THE BASELINE; BEME OUTCOMES EVALUATION; EXAMINING CALIFORNIAS MIDWIFERY WORKFORCE AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF REGULATORY CHANGES; TELEHEALTH EVIDENCE REVIEW; CALAIM COUNTY HEALTH IT GAP ASSESSMENT; CALIFORNIA PHYSICIAN ALMANAC 2023-2024; ESTABLISHING A PHARMTECH TO PHARMD PROGRAM FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; DIGITAL NAVIGATION LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT; DIGGING INTO THE DATA - SUPPORTING FURTHER ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE STATEWIDE STUD
• Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation $2,903,856 · 2021
  EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFITS SURVEY, 2022. THE CONVERSATION / LA CONVERSACION - PREGNANCY AND FERTILITY. COVID-19 VACCINE LATINO/SPANISH LANGUAGE CAMPAIGN. THE CONVERSATION/LA CONVERSACION CAMPAIGN CONTINUATION, FALL 2021. SUPPORT FOR CALIFORNIA HEALTHLINE, 2021-2022.
• Tides Center $2,602,036 · 2020
  CONNECTED CARE ACCELERATOR; PLANNING GRANT: ADVANCING PRIMARY CARE THROUGH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTEGRATION - PLANNING A COLLABORATIVE; BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTEGRATION PROJECT (BHIP): PLANNING & EQUITY FOCUS DEVELOPMENT GRANT; PALLIATIVE CARE DELIVERY BEYOND THE COVID ERA: CONSIDERING THE FUTURE OF VIRTUAL CARE
• Community Partners $2,561,869 · 2023
  FOUNDATION EVALUATION DIRECTORS MEETING AT GEO; MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH NOW'S 2023-24 PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCES; PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH TRAININGS FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY'S SAFETY NET PROVIDERS; IMPROVING QUALITY AND REDUCING DISPARITIES FOR MEDI-CAL POPULATIONS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S HIDDEN SAFETY NET
• Public Health Institute $2,053,664 · 2020
  CA COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH CAPACITY BUILDING COLLABORATIVE FUND, REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING LANDSCAPE IN CALIFORNIA MEDI-CAL
• Kff $1,964,000 · 2023
  EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFITS SURVEY, 2022; CALIFORNIA HEALTHLINE RENEWAL: 2023-25

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 378 of 573 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

75% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $45,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from California Healthcare Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 239 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 75 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1438 Webster St 400, Oakland, CA, 94612.

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