Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$3,245,986

Total expenses

$3,054,136

Contributions and grants received

$3,120,715

Grants paid

$450,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$73,946

Other revenue

$51,325

Total assets, end of year

$2,932,829

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,057,020

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,875,809

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,296,239

Management and general expenses

$257,424

Fundraising expenses

$500,473

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,296,239

Program services were 75.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING: STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT SHARE OUR MISSION AND VISION BUT DIFFER ON STRATEGY. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: 1. DISTRIBUTED SUPPORT TO LOCAL DISASTER RELIEF CHARITIES IN RESPONSE TO THE LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES. 2. INCUBATED AND LAUNCHED THE CALIFORNIA JUSTICE CENTER.

  Expenses $719,876 · Grants $450,000

• COMMUNICATIONS & EDUCATION: GREAT IDEAS DONT MATTER IF THEY JUST SIT ON A SHELF. OUR COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING TEAMS DEPLOY STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS THROUGH TRADITIONAL AND NEW MEDIA TO CREATE INCREMENTAL CHANGE WITHIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF POLITICIANS, THE PRESS AND CALIFORNIANS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: XX MEDIA RADIO, PODCAST, OP-EDS HITS. HELPED EDUCATE 900,000 CALIFORNIANS ON THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. DEVELOPED GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH THAT DROVE INSIGHT INTO CALIFORNIAS CURRENT GOVERNANCE.

  Expenses $589,513

• COALITION BUILDING: UNITING PARENTS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND POLICY ALLIES TO CREATE A STRONGER STATEWIDE NETWORK FOR REFORM. THIS INCLUDES OUR PARENT UNION, OUR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS NETWORK AND OUR WATER & ENERGY BUSINESS LEADERS COMMUNITY WE ARE BUILDING. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: PROVIDED POLICY SUPPORT AND EDUCATION TO OVER 300 CURRENT LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS. HELPED EDUCATE OVER 150 PARENT GROUP LEADERS AT OUR ANNUAL PARENT UNION SUMMIT. HOSTED WATER AND ENERGY BUSINESS LEADERS FOR ROUNDTABLES AND ABUNDANCE STRATEGY SESSIONS.

  Expenses $567,157

• RESEARCH: OUR RESEARCH TEAM PRODUCES INDEPENDENT, DATA-DRIVEN STUDIES THAT REVEAL THE REAL COSTS OF GOVERNMENT OVERREACH AND SPOTLIGHT PROVEN SOLUTIONS. THEY PUBLISH TIMELY REPORTS, REVEAL POLICY LANDMINES, AND ARM REFORMERS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT WITH THE CREDIBLE EVIDENCE THEY NEED TO WIN LASTING CHANGE. GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE SPECIAL INTEREST SPENDING IN ELECTIONS, WATER AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY, TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, UNION MEMBERSHIP SINCE THE 2018 JANUS DECISION.

  Expenses $256,419

• POLICY REFORM: THIS IS OUR TEAM ACTUALLY WORKING IN THE STATEHOUSE AND MUNICIPALITIES ACROSS THE STATE IMPLEMENTING REFORMS THAT WILL INCREASE QUALITY EDUCATION, MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE AGAIN AND DISMANTLE GOVERNMENT BARRIERS TO FREEDOM AND COMPETITION IN THE STATE. ACHIEVEMENTS: EDUCATED POLICY MAKERS, BUSINESS LEADERS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS ON PENDING LEGISLATION THOUGH EMAIL, JOURNALISM, EVENTS AND MEETINGS.

  Expenses $163,274

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• DONORSTRUST

  $450,000

  CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• CALIFORNIA ACTION

  501C4 · PUBLIC EDUCATION · CA

• CALIFORNIA POLICY PARTNERS INC

  501C6 · PUBLIC EDUCATION · CA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

13 August 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202642259349302879

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