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Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation

Martinez, CA · EIN 20-0555977. Reported 50 grants totalling $1,620,771 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

41organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$1,620,771granted, 2021-2024
20%of grantees funded again the next year
15%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. For Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $29,753; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $137,000. 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
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
18 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
4 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
Contra Costa Family Justice AllianceRichmond, CA$242,000422022
Richmond Community FoundationRichmond, CA$147,000222022
Bay Area LeedsWalnut Creek, CA$127,000112021
Brighter BeginningsRichmond, CA$127,000112021
California State University East Bay Foundation IncHayward, CA$98,250112021
One Accord Voting ProjectRichmond, CA$74,753332023
Contra Costa County FmrpMartinez, CA$66,600112021
NAMI Contra CostaConcord, CA$57,286112022
West Contra Costa Public Education FundRichmond, CA$50,000222022
District Council of Contra Costa Cty Society of St Vincent De PaulPittsburg, CA$48,800222022
Cocokids IncConcord, CA$45,000112022
Hijas Del CampoBrentwood, CA$35,500222024
Contra Costa County H3Concord, CA$30,000112021
White Pony ExpressConcord, CA$30,000112022
Contra Costa Crisis CenterWalnut Creek, CA$25,000112021
Darius Jones Foundation IncPittsburg, CA$25,000112022
La Clinica De La Raza IncOakland, CA$25,000112022
Love Never FailsDublin, CA$25,000112022
Monument Crisis CenterConcord, CA$25,000112022
Ryse IncRichmond, CA$25,000112022
Stand for Families Free of ViolenceConcord, CA$25,000112022
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs IncCalabasas, CA$24,800112024
Loaves and Fishes of Contra CostaMartinez, CA$20,000112022
Fred Finch Youth CenterOakland, CA$19,000112022
Community InitiativesOakland, CA$17,500112021
18 ReasonsSan Francisco, CA$15,000112024
Bay Area Crisis NurseryConcord, CA$15,000112024
La Concordia Wellness CenterConcord, CA$15,000112024
Planned Parenthood Federation ofNew York, NY$15,000112022
The Latina CenterRichmond, CA$15,000112022
Cch Integrative HealthMartinez, CA$13,000112023
Mental Health ConnectionsConcord, CA$12,000112022
Child Advocates of Contra Costa CountyConcord, CA$11,000112024
Reading Advantage IncBrentwood, CA$10,282112022
Bridge Builders to the New GenerationAntioch, CA$10,000112024
Diablo Valley Giving PartnersWalnut Creek, CA$10,000112021
Rubicon Programs IncRichmond, CA$10,000112024
Social Good Fund IncRichmond, CA$10,000112024
Tides CenterSan Francisco, CA$10,000112022
Rotacare Bay Area IncSunnyvale, CA$7,500112024
Parkview Baptist School IncBaton Rouge, LA$6,500112021

6 of 41 (15%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 41 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.

Human Services
7 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Health Care
4 orgs
Mental Health
4 orgs
Crime & Legal
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202116$896,850$27,500
202222$567,121$25,000
20232$28,000$14,000
202410$128,800$10,750

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

99% 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
$1.6M
New York
$15K
Louisiana
$6K

Down to the city

Richmond, CA
$701K
Concord, CA
$265K
Walnut Creek, CA
$162K
Martinez, CA
$100K
Hayward, CA
$98K
Pittsburg, CA
$74K

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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.

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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 $25,000 -- 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 Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation'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 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 50 Douglas Drive 310A, Martinez, CA, 94553.

EIN 20-0555977 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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