Public Health Advocates
Davis, CA · EIN 95-4723901. Reported 73 grants totalling $3,744,421 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Public Health Advocates, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
- How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $31,902 and $75,000; the smallest was $8,963 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Justice Politicorps of Sacramento County | Sacramento, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance | Richmond, CA | $204,832 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Raices Cultura | Coachella, CA | $195,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Reality Improv Connection Inc | Ventura, CA | $195,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Forward | Sacramento, CA | $194,580 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Camptonville Community Partnership | Camptonville, CA | $191,499 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Network of Solano County | Fairfield, CA | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Partnership for Safe Families & Communities of Ventura County | Ventura, CA | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vision Y Compromiso | Los Angeles, CA | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yosemite Rivers Alliance | Sonora, CA | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Weaving Wellness & Diversity | Redwood Valley, CA | $184,985 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Charitable Ventures of Orangecounty Inc | Santa Ana, CA | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way Fresno and Madera Counties | Fresno, CA | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pomona Community Foundation | Pomona, CA | $173,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Social Model Recovery Systems Inc | Covina, CA | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hope Is Rising Lake County Inc | Clearlake, CA | $135,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $124,974 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northern Circle Indian Housing Authority | Ukiah, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Redwood Community Services Inc | Ukiah, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Long Beach Forward Inc | Long Beach, CA | $59,627 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $56,282 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Santa Cruz County | Capitola, CA | $43,803 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| L a Voice | Los Angeles, CA | $41,486 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inland Empire Community Collaborative | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $31,902 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mom & Dad Project | Big Bear Lake, CA | $18,302 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | San Dimas, CA | $16,699 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dream Youth Clinic Inc | Oakland, CA | $13,487 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Movement of Fresno County | Fresno, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rainbow Labs Mentoring Inc | W Hollywood, CA | $8,963 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
18 of 30 (60%) 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.
- Social Justice Politicorps
PHA ACTED AS A FISCAL AGENT - Tides Center
ALL CHILDREN THRIVE SUPPORT PLANNING - Contra Costa Family Justice
PLANNING OF ACT DESIGN TEAMS - Long Beach Forward Inc
ACT RFA - SUPPORT HOUSING FOCUSED POLICIES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 30 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 year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $963,911 | $60,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $1,170,000 | $75,000 |
| 2023 | 17 | $859,959 | $40,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $750,551 | $16,699 |
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
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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
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 Public Health Advocates's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: Po Box 2309, Davis, CA, 95617.
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