Does Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

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Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 42
Grants FY2024: 42
Organizations funded FY2023: 24%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $600,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 42; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $133M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	39	$4.7M	18%
FY2023	42	$4.7M	24%
FY2022	40	$6.5M	38%
FY2021	37	$6.7M	27%
FY2020	33	$5.0M	45%
FY2019	33	$5.4M	70%
FY2018	12	$4.5M	50%
FY2017	8	$3.6M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$13MArts & Culture$11MHuman Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MHousing & Shelter$581kPublic Benefit$400kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco	$8,355,000	5	6%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$5,683,085	8	0%
The Trustees of the Smith College	$3,050,000	2	1%
Holy Names High School	$2,878,694	8	n/a
Archbishop Riordan High School	$2,064,750	6	n/a
Notre Dame High School	$1,452,063	6	n/a
San Francisco Food Bank	$1,000,000	1	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco	$1,000,000	3	2%
San Francisco Playhouse	$755,000	8	5%
Oakland Museum of California	$500,000	5	1%

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All grantees of Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco	$8,355,000	5	6%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$5,683,085	8	0%
The Trustees of the Smith College	$3,050,000	2	1%
Holy Names High School	$2,878,694	8	n/a
Archbishop Riordan High School	$2,064,750	6	n/a
Notre Dame High School	$1,452,063	6	n/a
San Francisco Food Bank	$1,000,000	1	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco	$1,000,000	3	2%
San Francisco Playhouse	$755,000	8	5%
Oakland Museum of California	$500,000	5	1%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco	$400,000	6	3%
Berkeley Repertory Theatre	$400,000	6	1%
Hrj Charities Inc	$375,000	6	51%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	$350,000	6	0%
Boston Plastic and Oral Surgery Foundation Inc	$330,921	3	0%
Bridge Housing Corporation	$300,000	5	0%
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation	$260,000	3	0%
Alameda County Community Food Bank	$200,000	4	0%
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund	$150,000	3	0%
Compass Family Services	$150,000	5	0%
Center for Independent Living	$135,010	6	2%
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation	$130,000	2	0%
Computer Technologies Program	$120,000	6	3%
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco	$95,000	4	0%
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County	$90,000	3	0%
Kqed Inc	$75,000	2	0%
California Academy of Sciences	$50,000	1	0%
Berkeley Real Estate Forum	$50,000	2	5%
Baptist Health Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Grace Science Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
Interlochen Center for the Arts	$45,000	3	0%
San Francisco Symphony	$40,000	2	0%
Meristem Inc	$20,000	2	0%
The Nevada Discovery Museum	$15,000	1	1%
Peninsula Jewish Community Center	$13,900	1	0%
San Francisco Hillel	$10,000	1	1%
Center for Creative Land Recycling	$10,000	2	1%
Northern Nevada Math Club Inc	$10,000	1	7%
Anti-Defamation League	$10,000	1	0%
Family House Inc	$10,000	1	0%
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America	$10,000	1	0%
National AIDS Memorial Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Shanti Project	$10,000	1	0%
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center	$8,600	2	0%
Peninsula Temple Beth El	$5,000	1	n/a
Together We Rise	$5,000	1	0%
The Jewish Home and Senior Living Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
American Jewish Committee	$2,500	1	0%
Galeria Studio 24	$1,500	2	0%
Friends of the Cameo	$1,000	1	0%
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER	$108	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.

Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA35.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Gerson Bakar Foundation · Koret Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Olympic Club Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation

How much does Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation give?: Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $4,772,868 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (30%), Arts & Culture (25%).
Who are Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco ($8.4M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($5.7M), The Trustees of the Smith College ($3.0M).
Does Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, Gerson Bakar Foundation.
Where is Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation based?: Barbara and Gerson Bakar Foundation Dba the Achieve Foundation is based in CA.