· Public charity
Contra Costa Crisis Center
Crisis intervention: the Contra Costa Crisis Center operates the 24-hour 988 suicide and crisis lifeline for contra costa county, providing crisis counseling, suicide prevention, emotional support, safety assessment, resource connection, and after-hours abuse reporting services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $111,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $801,276 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $690,276 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE ENTREPRENEUSHIP C | $8,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $8,000 |
| St Vincent De Paul of Contra | $7,500 |
| SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES | $7,500 |
| BAY AREA OUTREACH & RECREATIO | $7,500 |
| BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK | $7,000 |
| Rainbow Community Center | $7,000 |
| BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS | $7,000 |
| BEYOND EMANCIPATION | $7,000 |
| LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS | $7,000 |
| SHELTER INC OF CONTRA COSTA | $7,000 |
| BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJE | $6,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DIABLO V | $6,000 |
| RUBICON PROGRAMS INC | $6,000 |
| EDEN I&R-V | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS SENIOR SERVICES3× · 2019–2021 · $22k · revenue +197%
- DCDISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +24%
- BABay Area Outreach and Recreation Program2× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AAALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -36%
Tri-Valley Haven For Womengraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +81%- OHOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +75%
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.
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
BACS' mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing "whatever it takes." BACS helps people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or behavioural health challenges while balancing other complications like…
HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…
BOSS's mission is to help homeless, poor and disabled people achieve health and self sufficiency, and to fight against the root causes of poverty and homelessness in its community of Alameda County.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Abode services offers housing programs linked to supportive services for homeless families, single adults and youth. housing options include permanent supportive housing rental subsidy assistance, rapid rehousing and emergency shelter.…
SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.
To empower people living with mental health and co-occurring substance use challenges to achieve recovery, self-sufficiency, and deeply connected, meaningful lives within their communities.we do this by: delivering culturally responsive…
Housing counseling services to low and moderate income residents of the Bay Area. Services include placement, discrimination investigations, tenant and landlord dispute resolution, reverse mortgage counseling, and rental assistance…
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rubicon Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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
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 MEALS ON WHEELS SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BEYOND EMANCIPATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program ↗
- Who funds SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF DIABLO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tri-Valley Haven For Women ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Food Network ↗
- Who funds EDEN AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUBICON PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA ↗
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: San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Heffernan Group Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable 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 organization Contra Costa Crisis Center 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.
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.