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Bay Area Council

Our program service accomplishments include successes within the policy and research framework for bay area infrastructure including transportation, housing and land use, homelessness, workforce of the future, gender equity and diversity, water & climate resilience, early childhood education, government relations, healthcare & energy.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$540kEnvironment$62kHousing & Shelter$40kCommunity Improvement$29kArts & Culture$9kCivil Rights$5kEducation$5kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $40,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $49,515 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,515 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERKELEYANS FOR EFFECTIVE CLIMATE ACTION$40,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $1k → 17%SAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE: $5k → 7%SILICON VALLEY LEADERSHIP GROUP: $8k → 8%THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT: $5k → 8%PLEASANT HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $650 → 9%BERKELEYANS FOR EFFECTIVE CLIMATE ACTION: $40k → 10%AFFORDABLE HOMES NOW SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%NO ON 30: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR CALIFORNIA COMPETES: $10k → 14%UP FOR GROWTH INC: $5k → 14%SILICON VALLEY LEADERSHIP GROUP: $1k → 8%SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO FOR GOOD PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 8%PLEASANT HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $650 → 9%BAY AREA LEGISLATIVE LEADERS PAC: $35k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF JOSH NEWMAN OPPOSED TO THE RECALL ID #1396225: $3k → 12%UP FOR GROWTH INC: $5k → 14%SILICON VALLEY LEADERSHIP GROUP: $1k → 8%BETTER ROADS AND TRANSIT: $10k → 10%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $2k → 10%CAPITOL WEEKLY: $500 → 12%ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $10 → 14%FASTER: $397k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2k → 10%UP FOR GROWTH: $5k → 14%BAY AREA LEGISLATIVE LEADERS PAC ID #1377585: $5k → 10%BASHOF - BAY AREA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $2k → 10%BELOVED OAKLAND (EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE): $3k → 10%BASHOF: $550 → 10%IGNITE: $257 → 10%ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARNTERS: $500 → 10%BAY AREA LEGISLATIVE LEADERS PAC: $55k → 10%CITY CLUB: $75 → 10%OAKLAND ZOO: $2k → 10%THE CITY CLUB: $75 → 10%SUMMIT BANK FOUNDATION: $400 → 10%HAMILTON FAMILIES: $5k → 10%OAKLAND ZOO: $1k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SF STATE: $5k → 10%SUMMIT BANK FOUNDATION: $400 → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES: $6k → 10%CHANGEORG: $40 → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES: $1k → 10%WILLIE L BROWN JR INSTITUTE ON POLITICS & PUBLIC SERVICE: $1k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSING: $10k → 10%NIESAR & VESTAL LLP: $22k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$129k · 9 repeat orgs$603k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
29

Total granted

$129k
$563k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UF
    UP FOR GROWTH
    3× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +67%
  • CS
    CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +25%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • FB
    Faster Bay Area
    one grant, 2019 · $397k · revenue -98% · 33% of their budget
  • NO
    No on 30
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SS
    South San Francisco for Good Public Policy
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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3
Abundant San Francisco

To support effective government policies in San Francisco

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4
Revitalize San Francisco

To support a business tax reform measure on San Francisco's November 2024 ballot.

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5
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter
6
Coalition to Grow San Francisco - Grow Sf

The Organization exists to educate and engage the public on policy issues through public outreach and educational activities, encouraging civic participation, leading public policy discussions, and supporting projects to develop solutions.

Civil Rights
7
Save San Francisco Small Businesses - No On F

Oppose payroll expense tax ballot measure in the city and county of san francisco

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8
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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9
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
10
Advance Sf

Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…

Human Services
11
Sf for Muni Accountability and Reliable Service - No on Prop L

To oppose ballot measure Additional Business Tax on Transportation Network Companies and Autonomous Vehicle Businesses to Fund Public Transportation in San Francisco, CA.

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12
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tipping Point Community and the most unlike its peers is EastSide Arts Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research & AdvocacyIndustry & Professional Ass…Charter and Alternative Sch…Regional Business & Civic A…Senior Affordable HousingLabor Union Benefit Plans
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr14%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%18%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
12%
5,094/40,982

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
13/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Faster Bay Area — $397,448 · OtherFaster Bay AreaBAY AREA LEGISLATIVE LEADERS PAC — $89,650 · OtherBAY AREA LEGISLATIVE LEADERS PACBerkeleyans for Effective Climate Action — $40,000 · OtherBerkeleyans for Effective Climate ActionNo on 30 — $30,000 · OtherSouth San Francisco for Good Public Policy — $30,000 · Other+15 more — $74,240 · Other+15 moreUP FOR GROWTH — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON FAMILIES — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPleasant Hill Chamber Of Commerce — $650 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $500 · Community ImprovementSAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureEastSide Arts Alliance — $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $2,050 · Arts & CultureNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME — $1,250 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $5,000 · EducationOPEN CALIFORNIA — $1,500 · EducationWILLIE L BROWN JR INSTITUTE ON POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $257 · EducationThe Representation Project — $5,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10 · Civil RightsTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $2,450 · PhilanthropySummit Bank Foundation — $800 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $2,680 · Animals
Other$661,338Housing & Shelter$30,000Community Improvement$11,150Arts & Culture$10,800Education$7,757Civil Rights$5,010Philanthropy$3,250Animals$2,680

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFaster Bay Area — $397,448 over 1y, 33% of budgetBerkeleyans for Effective Climate Action — $40,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetNo on 30 — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth San Francisco for Good Public Policy — $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUP FOR GROWTH — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOMES NOW SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SILICON VALLEY LEADERSHIP GROUP — $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Representation Project — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $2,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $2,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN CALIFORNIA — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIE L BROWN JR INSTITUTE ON POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSummit Bank Foundation — $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLEASANT HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $650 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITY CORP — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIGNITE — $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The California Endowm…Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The California EndowmentCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bay Area Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home