GrantmakersCalifornia

California Air Pollution Control

Sacramento, CA · EIN 77-0058264. Reported 86 grants totalling $6,113,025 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

31organizations funded
$60,584median reported grant
$6,113,025granted, 2020-2023
94%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

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. 31 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 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 $60,584. Half of what it reported fell between $16,215 and $119,298; the smallest was $5,579 and the largest $247,043. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
28 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Great Basin Unified ApcdBishop, CA$641,751442023
San Luis Obispo County ApcdSan Luis Obispo, CA$588,015442023
Imperial County ApcdEl Centro, CA$577,942442023
Mojave Desert AqmdVictorville, CA$576,035442023
Placer County ApcdAuburn, CA$518,042442023
Yolo-Solano AqmdDavis, CA$468,763442023
Northern Sierra AqmdGrass Valley, CA$425,349442023
Eastern Kern County ApcdBakersfield, CA$296,352442023
Butte County AqmdChico, CA$267,894442023
Mendocino County AqmdUkiah, CA$256,841442023
Russel Sigler IncSacramento, CA$247,043112022
Lake County AqmdLakeport, CA$180,928442023
Bay Area AqmdSan Francisco, CA$143,922222022
San Joaquin Valley ApcdFresno, CA$134,172442023
Smarter HepaHeber City, UT$132,303112022
Antelope Valley AqmdLancaster, CA$92,832332023
Santa Barbara County ApcdSanta Barbara, CA$87,594442023
Siskiyou County ApcdYreka, CA$85,602442023
North Coast Unified AqmdEureka, CA$84,889442023
Genesis Air IncAndrews, TX$65,884112022
Shasta County AqmdRedding, CA$49,700442023
Tehama County ApcdRed Bluff, CA$47,606332023
Siskiyou County ApcdDavis, CA$29,410112023
Sacramento Metropolitan AqmdSacramento, CA$28,219332023
California Air Resources BoardSacramento, CA$24,844112023
El Dorado County AqmdPlacerville, CA$15,134112022
US Air Purifiers LLCPeoria, IL$12,916112022
San Diego County ApcdSacramento, CA$12,606112023
Irobot CorporationBedford, MA$8,337112022
Alen CorporationDallas, TX$6,521112022
Medify AirBoca Raton, FL$5,579112022

20 of 31 (65%) 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.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202017$1,215,596$69,470
202119$1,849,456$70,437
202228$1,759,740$54,581
202322$1,288,233$31,205

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

96% 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.

California
$5.9M
Utah
$132K
Texas
$72K
Illinois
$13K
Massachusetts
$8K
Florida
$6K

Down to the city

Bishop, CA
$642K
San Luis Obispo, CA
$588K
El Centro, CA
$578K
Victorville, CA
$576K
Auburn, CA
$518K
Davis, CA
$498K

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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.

Center for Technology and Civic Life5 shared recipientsCalifornia Fire Safe Council Inc3 shared recipientsPetsmart Charities Inc3 shared recipientsBest Friends Animal Society3 shared recipientsPublic Health Institute3 shared recipientsCalifornia Fire Foundation2 shared recipients

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 $60,584 -- 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from California Air Pollution Control'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.

Address of record on the latest return: 1107 9TH Street 801, Sacramento, CA, 95814.

EIN 77-0058264 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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