Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$2,294,990

Total expenses

$2,202,515

Contributions and grants received

$2,282,565

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$12,425

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,652,671

Total liabilities, end of year

$71

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,652,600

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,637,498

Management and general expenses

$224,437

Fundraising expenses

$340,580

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,637,498

Program services were 74.3% 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 · 2024

• 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.

  Expenses $205,343

• Communications & Education: Great ideas dont matter if they just sit on a shelf. Our comms and marketing teams deploys strategic communications campaigns through traditional and new media to create incremental change within the hearts and minds of politicians, the press and Californians throughout the state.

  Expenses $617,829

• 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.

  Expenses $477,716

• Policy Reform: This is our team actually working in the statehouse and municipalities across the state implementing reforms.

  Expenses $210,253

• Strategic Grantmaking: Strategic grantmaking to organizations that share our mission and vision, but differ on strategy.

  Expenses $126,357

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

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

2024

Filed

15 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202503199349302210

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