Golden State Opportunity
San Francisco, CA · EIN 47-4325738. Reported 113 grants totalling $4,040,485 to 47 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 Golden State Opportunity, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 9% 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. 91% 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 $28,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,000 and $48,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $148,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexican American Opportunity Foundation | Montebello, CA | $376,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Foundation for California Community Colleges | Sacramento, CA | $267,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Central City Neighborhood Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $222,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| El Centro De Ayuda | Los Angeles, CA | $188,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Barrio Action Youth & Family Center | Los Angeles, CA | $179,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Eastmont Community Center | Los Angeles, CA | $157,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin | Lodi, CA | $139,700 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dreams for Change Inc | San Diego, CA | $136,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inland Equity Community Land Trust | Palm Desert, CA | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Family Assistance Program | Victorville, CA | $131,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Antelope Valley Partners for Health | Lancaster, CA | $124,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community College Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $119,450 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jefferson Economic Developement Institute | Mount Shasta, CA | $118,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Central Valley Partnership | Fresno, CA | $104,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Economics for Women | Los Angeles, CA | $102,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Responsible Community Development | Los Angeles, CA | $87,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties | Watsonville, CA | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Time for Change Foundation | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $82,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Black Women for Wellness | Los Angeles, CA | $69,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sigma Beta Xi Inc | Moreno Valley, CA | $69,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Haven Services | Los Angeles, CA | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Starting Over Inc | Riverside, CA | $67,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Health and Democracy Education Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $63,135 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation | Detroit Lakes, MN | $56,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center | San Bernardino, CA | $53,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jakara Movement | Fresno, CA | $50,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asian Youth Center | San Gabriel, CA | $49,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People | Solvang, CA | $48,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | San Francisco, CA | $46,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Iglesia Nueva Vida Discipulos De Cristo | Riverside, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project | Oxnard, CA | $44,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| El Concilio California | Stockton, CA | $43,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| P F Bresee Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $43,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Watts Labor Community Action Committee | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Invincibles | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| John Burton Advocates for Youth | San Francisco, CA | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| I Foster Inc | Truckee, CA | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Education and Leadership Foundation | Fresno, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy | Ventura, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bill Wilson Center | Santa Clara, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Human & Social Development Inc | San Bruno, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco CASA | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Restart Shelter | Hemet, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monument Crisis Center | Concord, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tax-Aid | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement | San Bernardino, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
31 of 47 (66%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 47 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 | 9 | $166,335 | $9,000 |
| 2022 | 32 | $1,157,200 | $25,500 |
| 2023 | 32 | $1,241,950 | $36,500 |
| 2024 | 40 | $1,475,000 | $30,000 |
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.
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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 $28,000 -- 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 Golden State Opportunity'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 40 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: 345 California Street 600, San Francisco, CA, 94104.
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