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Bay Area Council Foundation

Our vision of a stronger, innovative, globally competitive and more vibrant region is empowered by our mission to support the bay area council and invest philanthropic resources toward building stronger more vibrant communities (continued on schedule o)a healthy economy and a more innovative and globally competitive and sustainable bay…

$770k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$196k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$2.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$220kCommunity Improvement$120kInternational$116kArts & Culture$100kPublic Benefit$100k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $742k
$115,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$195,500
CLIMATE RESOLVE$120,500
REGENERATIVE FOREST SOLUTIONS (FISCAL SPONSOR INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC)$115,500
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$115,500
AGROECOLOGY COMMONS$100,000
THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$95,002
NEW CALIFORNIA COALITION FOUNDATION$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $20k → 9%CITY OF SAN LEANDRO: $81k → 10%NEW CALIFORNIA COALITION FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%CA HAWAII STATE CONF OF NAACP: $164k → 12%SAN JOAQUIN AREA FLOOD CONTROL AGENCY: $100k → 12%CLIMATE RESOLVE: $121k → 14%SANTA YNEZ BAND OF CHUMASH MISSION INDIANS: $57k → 14%TOWN OF PARADISE: $180k → 18%MADERA COUNTY DEPART OF WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES: $180k → 22%THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $86k → 10%REGENERATIVE FOREST SOLUTIONS (FISCAL SPONSOR INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC): $116k → 9%ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL: $180k → 10%GREENBELT ALLIANCE: $98k → 10%CIVICWELL: $10k → 12%US GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL-LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA: $100k → 14%FASTER: $100k → 10%THE FERNANDENO TATAVIAM BAND OF MISSION INDIANS: $180k → 14%INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $58k → 10%THE FORESTRY AND FIRE RECRUITMENT PROGRAM: $200k → 14%WESTERN KLAMATH RESTORATION PARTNERSHIP: $180k → 10%TZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $196k → 14%FMMS: $175k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $99k → 14%BIG VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS: $100k → 10%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $116k → 14%MYCELIUM YOUTH NETWORK: $97k → 10%AGROECOLOGY COMMONS: $100k → 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 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.

1
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
3
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance

To create a california where balancing economic growth and environmental protection is not only a vision, but also a reality.

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6
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
7
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
8
350 Bay Area

We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Environment
9
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
Green Cities Accord

Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…

Environment
12
Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet

To bring people together to create local solutions for a healthy planet.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Climate Resolve and the most unlike its peers is The Regeneration Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 28 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $180,593 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCCooperation Humboldt — $180,408 · OtherCooperation HumboldtWESTERN KLAMATH RESTORATION PARTNERSHIP — $180,408 · OtherWESTERN KLAMATH RESTORATION PARTNERSHIPTOWN OF PARADISE — $180,408 · OtherTOWN OF PARADISEMADERA COUNTY DEPART OF WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES — $180,188 · OtherMADERA COUNTY DEPART OF WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCESFMMS — $174,938 · OtherFMMSCA HAWAII STATE CONF OF NAACP — $164,400 · OtherCA HAWAII STATE CONF OF NAACPFaster Bay Area — $100,000 · OtherFaster Bay AreaSAN JOAQUIN AREA FLOOD CONTROL AGENCY — $100,000 · OtherSAN JOAQUIN AREA FLOOD CONTROL AGENCYBIG VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANS — $100,000 · OtherBIG VALLEY BAND OF POMO INDIANSSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPT — $100,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPTCITY OF SAN LEANDRO — $80,500 · Other+2 more — $115,200 · Other+2 moreINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $215,500 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS …TZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $195,500 · Community ImprovementTZICATL COMMUNITY …ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY — $98,591 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A BET…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $20,000 · Community ImprovementNEW CALIFORNIA COALITION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $180,408 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific …CLIMATE RESOLVE — $120,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RESOLV…GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $98,091 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALLI…CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL — $50,000 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA GRE…URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC — $200,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFERNANDENO TATAVIAM BAND OF MISSION INDIANS — $180,408 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $115,500 · InternationalMycelium Youth Network — $97,324 · Youth DevelopmentCivicwell — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,837,043Community Improvement$549,591Environment$448,999Public Safety & Disaster$200,000Arts & Culture$180,408International$115,500Youth Development$97,324Public Benefit$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $215,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTZICATL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $195,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $180,593 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCooperation Humboldt — $180,408 over 1y, 21% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $180,408 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCLIMATE RESOLVE — $120,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $115,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFaster Bay Area — $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY — $98,591 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $98,091 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMycelium Youth Network — $97,324 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE REGENERATION PROJECT — $58,250 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW CALIFORNIA COALITION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCivicwell — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 San Francisco Fou…California Community …Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The San Francisco FoundationCA15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 28 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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