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· Private foundation
Berkeley Pilgrimage Foundation
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$210k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants
1
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of Berkeley Pilgrimage Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
operation
2020
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2020 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Youth Spirit Artworks$25,000
- EveryOne Home$25,000
- St Mary's Center$25,000
- Family Bridges$25,000
- Alzheimers Services of the East Bay$25,000
- J-SEI$25,000
- Satellite Affordable Housing Associates$25,000
- East Bay Community Foundation$12,500
- Berkeley Meals on Wheels$12,500
- SCORE East Bay Chapter #506$10,000
02The need
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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:
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$190k · 4 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
2
Total granted
$190k
$60k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+40%
+57%
Still filing today
50%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Crime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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
- SMSt Mary's Center2× · 2019–2020 · $90k · revenue +9%
- EHEveryOne Home2× · 2019–2020 · $40k
- YSYouth Spirit Artworks2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- LALegal Assistance for Seniorsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +57%
- CFCenter for Independent Livingone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +14%
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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Legal Assistance to the Elderly
LAE's mission is to protect and advance the right of San Franciscos seniors and adults with disabilities to be housed, healthy, financially stable, and safe. We provide free legal services to San Francisco seniors and adults with…
Crime & Legal
2
Asian Americans Advancing Justice -
The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…
Crime & Legal
3
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.
Human Services
4
San Francisco Senior and Disability
Senior and Disability Action mobilizes and educates seniors and people with disabilities to fight for individual rights and social justice. More than 1000 people take part in our housing, health care, transit and empowerment programs each…
Unclassified
5
Senior Advocacy Services
Senior advocacy services promotes the health, dignity, rights and quality of life of seniors and disabled in the north bay.
Health
6
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center
SVILC is a cross-disability, intergenerational, and multicultural disability justice organization that creates fully inclusive communities that value the dignity, equality, freedom worth of every human being.
Human Services
7
Empowered Aging Inc
Protects and advocates for older and dependent adults and their families to preserve their rights and improve their quality of life throughout the process of aging.
Unclassified
8
Legal Services of Northern California
To provide high quality civil legal services to the poor, seniors, and persons with disabilities.
Crime & Legal
9
Sourcewise
The Mission of Sourcewise is to foster a comprehensive coordinated home and community based service delivery system to meet the needs of older persons and their caregivers in Santa Clara.
Human Services
10
Golden Gate Senior Services
Golden gate senior services (ggss) provides a broad spectrum of services and activities for older persons, including disabled adults, that enhances their social, physical and mental well-being.
Human Services
11
Asian Health Services
To serve and advocate for the medically underserved, including the immigrant and refugee asian community, and to ensure equal access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture.
Health
12
East Bay Community Law Center
The largest provider of free legal services in alameda county, (continued on schedule o)assisting low income community members with housing, health, immigration, public benefits, criminal records, education rights, juvenile defense,…
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is J-Sei Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Spirit Artworks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$227,500Crime & Legal$45,000Youth Development$40,000Health$25,000Human Services$25,000Philanthropy$12,500
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FoundationCA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · East Bay Foundation on Aging · Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation Berkeley Pilgrimage 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: J-SEI.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 942496799 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on J-SEI, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Berkeley Pilgrimage Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Berkeley Pilgrimage Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines