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Community Initiatives
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES acts as a thought-partner and provides administrative services to nonprofit startups, established initiatives, networks, and collaborations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 101 grants below total $23,113,936 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $23,835,649 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $721,713 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSE OF VICTORY FOUNDATION | $16,725,249 |
| BULLDOG BREAD FOUNDATION | $1,170,500 |
| FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST | $1,136,271 |
| BOARDDEV CORPORATION | $413,250 |
| IMMIGRANTS RISING | $362,705 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $250,392 |
| EXYGY INC | $199,500 |
| THE CARPENTRIES INC | $164,992 |
| SHIFT PROJECT LTD | $146,400 |
| GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPACE INC | $144,000 |
| SIERRA BUSINESS COUNCIL | $139,609 |
| THE PREDISTRIBUTION INITIATIVE INC | $128,059 |
| ROSE PAK COMMUNITY FUND | $110,952 |
| NDSU | $84,000 |
| CITY OF FRAMINGHAM | $82,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
132 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 96 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TDTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST4× · 2017–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +6%
- GOGROUNDWORK OHIO2× · 2021–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +193%
- T2TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE3× · 2019–2021 · $900k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HOHOUSE OF VICTORY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3.8M
- PTPLACER TITLE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- GPGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $923k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Bay Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
352 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. 352 of the 517 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK OHIO ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds US DIGITAL RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
- Who funds HELP A MOTHER OUT ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Death Valley Natural History Association ↗
- Who funds HEPATITUS EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrants Rising ↗
- Who funds CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for California Community Colleges · East Bay Community Foundation · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · Project Lead the Way Inc · Sunlight Giving · National Park Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund
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 Community Initiatives 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.
- Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
- Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
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.