California state grant coverage, 2026
What our linked California records show about how state agencies publish money: programme pools an order of magnitude larger than any single award, and a deadline field missing far more often than it is stated.
Measured 2026-09-07 · 167 records in scope · state: CA
Limits of this report
167 records is a corpus, not a sample of the sector, and one portal is not a state. Recipient histories are not connected, so nothing here says who actually received money, and no foundation filing is included. Read it as an audit of our own coverage, and read the data sources page for what changes next.
The figures below are counted at read time over the inventory observed on that date. They are not a frozen snapshot: a later read may return different numbers, and the measurement date is what tells you which reading you are looking at.
What this counts
Records in our catalogue whose eligibility names California. This is a coverage report about our own corpus, not a survey of California grantmaking.
Every figure below can be traced to a record page, and every record page links to the official source it was read from. This is an audit of our own coverage rather than a survey of the sector.
Programme pools against award ceilings
A programme pool is what a programme holds across every award it will make. An award ceiling is the most one applicant can be given. They are separate fields here and they are never added, averaged or shown under one heading.
| Field | Records stating it | Across those records |
|---|---|---|
| Award ceiling, per applicant | 66 of 167 | $0 – $550,000,000 |
| Programme pool, total | 140 of 167 | $18,100,321,827 |
The pool row is a sum across programmes, not an amount any applicant receives. Records that state neither field are counted in the denominator and contribute nothing to the value.
Deadline coverage
A record with no linked deadline is our gap rather than the grantmaker’s silence, and it is counted here as such rather than folded into the rolling total.
Verification coverage
167 of 167 records in scope were confirmed against their source page in the last 30 days. A record outside that window keeps its stored values and its old check date; it is never re-dated and never quietly removed.