· Private foundation
Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Middletown Art Center | $1,000 |
| Bay Point Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| Greenway Foundation | $1,000 |
| Treva Reid for Oakland Mayor | $900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SSSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +93%
Independent Arts & Media2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +563%- CGCreative Growth Art Center2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- OPOAKLAND PROMISEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +185%
- GIGIRLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +44%
- JHJobs Housing Coalitionone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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,…
BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…
The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…
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.
The Bay Area Creative Foundation celebrates, cultivates, and inspires creativity in youth and young adults. We believe in fostering a society that embodies creative spirit, art, and innovation.
Provide accessible high-quality training & employment services to local residents and employers.
Our mission is to empower and unite the vibrant Chinatown community through social, cultural, and economic development, improving the quality of life for all residents. We achieve this by preserving heritage, promoting inclusivity, and…
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
To advance arts justice by ensuring that all students in under-resourced oakland public schools receive a comprehensive arts education in order to improve learning and promote achievement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creativity Explored Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Oakland Job Resourse Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds CIVICORPS ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Land Recycling ↗
- Who funds Creative Growth Art Center ↗
- Who funds United Playaz ↗
- Who funds One Living Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC ↗
- Who funds WEST OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS PROJECT (WOEIP) ↗
- Who funds WEST OAKLAND JOB RESOURSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Greenway Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Richmond Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE GUBBIO PROJECT INC ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · The California Endowment · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc 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.
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