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Bay Area Chamber Foundation Inc

Helping leaders grow and businesses start by allowing the chamber to reach into the community first-hand and provide resources necessary to conduct research, scholarships and host educational events focused on the areas of equity, entrepreneurial and workforce development, housing, transportation and community needs.

$155k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Education$128kHealth$48kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$18kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $148,638, the rows itemized in this filing. The $155,238 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$276k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
WESTCARE GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC$47,638
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC$25,000
ST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT ASSOCIATION$10,000
ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE$8,000
GOZONE WIFI LLC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACADEMY PREP: $78k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $25k → 13%ST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INC: $77,528 · EducationACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INCST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCWESTCARE GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC: $47,638 · HealthWESTCARE GULFCOAST FLOR…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…ST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureST PETERS…ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureST PETERS…GOZONE WIFI LLC: $8,000 · Other
Education$127,528Health$47,638Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$18,000Other$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INC: $77,528 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWESTCARE GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC: $47,638 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bay Area Chamber Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Chamber Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $13k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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