California · Private foundation
Blackberry Creek Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $336k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Blackberry Creek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $336k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $251k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $269k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $385k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $279k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $525,000 | 5 | 0% |
| East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay | $112,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity East Bay Silicon Valley | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cycles of Change | $80,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| California Mobility Fund | $50,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Razom Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Housing Defense Fund | $40,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Berkeley High School Development Group | $40,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blackberry Creek Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The California Endowment · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Abeles Foundation · Mighty Arrow Family Foundation · Rails to Trails Conservancy
How this is measured
About Blackberry Creek Foundation
- How much does Blackberry Creek Foundation give?
- Blackberry Creek Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $336,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Blackberry Creek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (36%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Blackberry Creek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Alameda County Community Food Bank ($525k), East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay ($113k), Habitat for Humanity East Bay Silicon Valley ($95k).
- Does Blackberry Creek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blackberry Creek 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 Blackberry Creek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Blackberry Creek Foundation based?
- Blackberry Creek Foundation is based in CA.
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