· Private foundation
Cloud Nine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPIRIT ROCK MEDITATION CENTER | $60,000 |
| STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION | $12,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCATORS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- SASTAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $62k · revenue +34%
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +491%- SFSAN FRANCISCO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL & CULTURAL SOCIETY3× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +5%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%- SSSCIENCE SISTAS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCATgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +471%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of San Francisco Achievers is to inspire and empower African-American young men in the San Francisco Unified School District to succeed in college and postsecondary institutions.
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
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.
To provide californias african american youth with the tools, education and experiences to prepare them to become fully engaged participants in the states civic and economic life
Educate and advocacy
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
The mission of the Sacramento Black chamber of commerce is to assure member businesses will benefit through services that sustain and increase their revenue. Additionally, the region will benefit through the growth of African American…
Sf black wall street was founded in june 2020 by a group of seven black san francisco natives in response to the devastating impact of covid-19 and anti-black racism on black business, cultural space, and stakeholdership. we are a network…
Black Freedom Fund works to realize racial justice for all and empowers Black communities through grantmaking, capacity-building, research, civic engagement, and narrative change.
Our mission is to address the professional needs of our members and to build leaders to shape the future of the accounting and finance profession.
The Funds mission is to provide sustained support to grassroots organizing projects and movements rooted in the multi-racial working class which rely on their members and constituency to build power in the community.
The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL & CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cloud Nine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cloud Nine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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