CATALYST CALIFORNIA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

W20

Classification

2000

Street

1910 W SUNSET BLVD STE 500

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• EDUCATIONAL EQUITYTHE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY PROGRAM WORKS TO TRANSFORM THE BIRTH TO 12TH GRADE (B-12) SYSTEM TO UPLIFT WHOLE-CHILD, WHOLE-FAMILY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN OF COLOR FROM HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. WE STRIVE TO CATALYZE ACTION THAT DISMANTLES THE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS THAT PERPETUATE DISPARTITIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

  Expenses $2,055,747 · Grants $203,400 · Revenue $15,438

• EQUITY IN COMMUNITY INVESTMENTSWE PARTNER WITH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO EQUIP THEM WITH THE BUDGET AND ADVOCACY TOOLS NECESSARY TO WIN SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS THAT HELP ALL CALIFORNIANS THRIVE. THROUGH BUDGET AND POLICY ANALYSIS, TRAININGS, AND CAMPAIGN SUPPORT, WE DISMANTLE THE LEGACY OF PUBLIC DISINVESTMENT AND CRIMINALIZATION THAT HAS CREATED RACE-BASED DISPARITIES IN OUR COMMUNITIES' HEALTH AND WELL-BEING.

  Expenses $1,187,741 · Grants $427,736 · Revenue $14,750

• POLITICAL VOICEPOLITICAL VOICE WORKS TO MAKE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MORE PARTICIPATORY AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE. OUR GOAL IS THAT ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE ABLE TO GENUINELY PARTICIPATE IN THE MAKING OF EFFECTIVE PUBLIC POLICY, IN WAYS THAT GO BEYOND JUST VOTING, AND THAT GOVERNMENTS RESPOND EQUITABLY TO COMMUNITY CONCERNS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL, WE ADVOCATE FOR RACIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY JUST DEMOCRACY REFORMS.

  Expenses $597,639 · Grants $21,700

• REIMAGINE JUSTICE AND SAFETYTHE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM WAS BORNE OUT OF AMERICA'S RACIST FOUNDING AND CONTINUES TO DEVASTATE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. DATA SHOW THAT CALIFORNIANS OF COLOR ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY POLICED, ARRESTED, INCARCERATED, AND SUBJECTED TO HARSHER SENTENCES THAN WHITES. AT THE SAME TIME, RATES OF VIOLENCE ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGHER IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR -DESPITE DECADES OF LANDMARK INVESTMENTS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INCARCERATION. THESE DEEP-SEATED HARMS HAVE ERODED PUBLIC TRUST IN OUR SYSTEM OF SAFETY.EXPENSES $ 168,910. INCLUDING GRANTS OF $ 0 REVENUE $ 0.ALL OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDING CROSS PROGRAMMATIC PROGRAMS.EXPENSES $ 3,456,230. INCLUDING GRANTS OF $16,751. REVENUE $ 726,492.

  Expenses $3,625,140 · Grants $16,751 · Revenue $726,492

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $10,718,061

  Expenses

  $9,980,426

  Contributions

  $9,841,166

  Grants paid

  $669,587

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,436,201

  Expenses

  $11,161,797

  Contributions

  $5,437,094

  Grants paid

  $2,122,367

• 2022

  Revenue

  $16,322,929

  Expenses

  $14,293,438

  Contributions

  $14,343,550

  Grants paid

  $587,675

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,680,173

  Expenses

  $15,766,142

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,800,664

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $24,548,157

  Expenses

  $15,145,308

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,300,325

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $15,807,115

  Expenses

  $13,047,555

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,809,589

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,252,815

  Expenses

  $12,698,971

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,497,730

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,986,369

  Expenses

  $10,944,058

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,006,197

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,829,993

  Expenses

  $11,346,188

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,151,567

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,232,213

  Expenses

  $11,916,647

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,759,634

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,178,956

  Expenses

  $12,036,320

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,426,938

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,337,590

  Expenses

  $12,484,067

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,799,293

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

• CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND

  $1,329,000

  2023 · BUDGET POWER PROJECT -MILLION VOTERS PROJECT

• CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER

  $500,000

  2023 · BUDGET POWER PROJECT -MILLION VOTERS PROJECT

• CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND

  $377,736

  2025 · TO SUPPORT THE BUDGET POWER PROJECT, A STATEWIDE INITIATIVE DESIGNED TO EMPOWER BIPOC AND WORKING-CLASS COMMUNITIES TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE IN, AND RESHAPE, PUBLIC BUDGETING.

• CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND

  $170,000

  2022 · BUDGET POWER PROJECT -MILLION VOTERS PROJECT

• FM3 RESEARCH

  $164,000

  2022 · CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESEARCH

• CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE

  $153,000

  2025 · TO SUPPORT THE YOUTH LEADERS THRIVING PROGRAM TO EMPOWER YOUTH OF COLOR, ADVOCATING FOR HOLISTIC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, PROMOTING EDUCATIONAL EQUITY AND DEVELOPING STUDENT CIVIC LEADERSHIP.

• CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE

  $152,750

  2023 · CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE OF LEARNING

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2023 · LA STRUCTURAL REFORM

• CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER

  $75,000

  2022 · BUDGET POWER PROJECT -MILLION VOTERS PROJECT

• TIDES CENTER

  $62,525

  2022 · COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN CA'S RATE REFORM & QUALITY INITIATIVE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $1,007,300

  2022 · PUBLIC SERVICE

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $1,004,000

  2023 · MEDICAL / PUBLIC SERVICES

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $1,000,000

  2024 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

  $762,746

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $624,000

  2023 · Civic Participation

• LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION

  $568,080

  2024 · SUPPORT FOR BOLD VISION

• CCF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FUND

  $294,753

  2024 · EDUCATION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

• COMMUNITY PARTNERS

  $250,000

  2022 · CHANGING PUBLIC SYSTEMS MOST CRITICAL TO CHILDREN PRENATAL TO 5 AND THEIR FAMILI

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $225,000

  2024 · EDUCATION

• CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC

  $150,000

  2022 · Regrants - Program services

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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