California · Public charity
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
To distribute funds for critical family needs, housing assistance and food programs in order to assist people in need throughout the greater san francisco bay area.
- $13M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $505,395
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,189,882
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $13M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $14M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $15M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $14M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $15M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $11M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $7.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland | $19,886,924 | 8 | 50% |
| Holy Family Day Home | $17,954,283 | 9 | 82% |
| Sunnyvale Community Services | $13,125,268 | 9 | 17% |
| Samaritan House | $7,979,678 | 9 | 7% |
| Community Action of Napa Valley | $4,952,111 | 9 | 11% |
| Community Action Marin | $4,408,720 | 9 | 3% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $3,885,762 | 9 | 0% |
| Benicia Community Action Council | $3,380,221 | 8 | 92% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $3,090,786 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $2,812,323 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland | $19,886,924 | 8 | 50% |
| Holy Family Day Home | $17,954,283 | 9 | 82% |
| Sunnyvale Community Services | $13,125,268 | 9 | 17% |
| Samaritan House | $7,979,678 | 9 | 7% |
| Community Action of Napa Valley | $4,952,111 | 9 | 11% |
| Community Action Marin | $4,408,720 | 9 | 3% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $3,885,762 | 9 | 0% |
| Benicia Community Action Council | $3,380,221 | 8 | 92% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $3,090,786 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $2,812,323 | 8 | n/a |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $2,765,176 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $2,739,102 | 9 | 0% |
| Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County | $846,953 | 2 | 4% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $843,442 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way California Capital Region | $505,395 | 1 | 2% |
| Marin Community Food Bank | $414,300 | 6 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of the Bay Area · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
- How much does Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund give?
- Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund reported 18 grants totaling $13,373,807 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (84%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland ($20M), Holy Family Day Home ($18M), Sunnyvale Community Services ($13M).
- Does Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Bay Area, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, McNabb Foundation.
- Where is Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund based?
- Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund is based in CA.
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