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Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc at a glance

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Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc

$9k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$30kCommunity Improvement$15kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$10kEmployment$9kArts & Culture$8kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Greenway Foundation$1,000
Middletown Art Center$1,000
Bay Point Community Foundation$1,000
Treva Reid for Oakland Mayor$900
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Bay Point Community Foundation: $1k → 9%Civicorps: $4k → 10%United Playaz: $3k → 10%Dorothy's Place: $200 → 12%APAPA: $500 → 12%Middletown Art Center: $1k → 17%Girls Inc: $7k → 17%Greenway Foundation: $1k → 12%Richmond Community Foundation: $500 → 9%Cityside Journalism: $2k → 10%San Francisco Housing Action Coalit: $2k → 10%All in One: $400 → 9%California Storm: $2k → 10%Creativity Explored: $1k → 10%Tara Hills Rec Association: $1k → 9%West Oakland Env Indicators Project: $1k → 10%Creativity Explored: $620 → 10%Industrial Association of Contra Co: $300 → 9%California Storm: $1k → 10%Best Buddies: $350 → 10%Sheriff's Charities of Contra Costa: $600 → 9%West Oakland Job Resource Center: $1k → 10%Code Tenderloin: $2k → 10%Treva Reid for Oakland Mayor: $900 → 9%East Bay College Fund: $25k → 10%Code Tenderloin: $2k → 10%One Living Sanctuary: $2k → 9%Jobs Housing Coalition: $5k → 10%Faithful Fools: $2k → 10%Oakland Promise: $5k → 10%The Gubbio Project: $250 → 10%Job Housing Coalition: $4k → 10%Independent Arts Media: $4k → 10%Creative Growth Art Center: $2k → 10%Veterans Art Support: $1k → 10%Creative Growth Art Center: $664 → 10%Veterans Art Support: $500 → 10%Creative Growth Art Center: $500 → 10%Independent Arts Media: $250 → 10%Center for Creative Land Recycling: $3k → 10%Northern California Presbyterian Ho: $250 → 10%The Unity Council: $7k → 10%The Unity Council: $5k → 10%California College of the Arts: $350 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 6 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
23

Total granted

$27k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+53%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
Youth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SS
    SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +114%
  • Independent Arts & Media
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +563%
  • CG
    Creative Growth Art Center
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • OP
    OAKLAND PROMISEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +185%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +44%
  • JH
    Jobs Housing Coalition
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
3
Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center Inc

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…

Education
4
The Oakland Institute

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Unitedly

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.

Human Services
6
Bay Area Creative Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Oakland Private Industry Council in C

Provide accessible high-quality training & employment services to local residents and employers.

Community Improvement
8
Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council

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…

Community Improvement
9
San Francisco Public Press

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…

Education
10
Marin Open Studios

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…

Arts & Culture
11
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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12
Arts for Oakland Kids

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creativity Explored Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jobs Housing Coalition: $5,000 · OtherJobs Housing CoalitionCODE TENDERLOIN INC: $4,000 · OtherCODE TENDERLOIN INCJob Housing Coalition: $3,500 · OtherJob Housing CoalitionIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,600 · OtherSan Francisco Housing Action Coalit: $1,583 · OtherOne Living Sanctuary: $2,000 · OtherOne Living Sanctuary+14 more: $8,250 · Other+14 moreOAKLAND PROMISE: $30,000 · EducationOAKLAND PROMISE+1 more: $350 · EducationGIRLS INC: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCCIVICORPS: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIVICORPSUnited Playaz: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentUnited PlayazSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $11,500 · Community ImprovementSPANISH SPEAK…WEST OAKLAND JOB RESOURSE CENTER: $1,000 · Community ImprovementWEST OAKLAND …Creative Growth Art Center: $2,664 · HealthCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $1,620 · HealthIndependent Arts & Media: $4,250 · Arts & CultureCenter for Creative Land Recycling: $3,000 · EnvironmentWEST OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS PROJECT (WOEIP): $1,000 · Environment
Other$34,933Education$30,350Youth Development$13,500Community Improvement$12,500Health$4,284Arts & Culture$4,250Environment$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $4,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCIVICORPS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Creative Land Recycling: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center: $2,664 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Playaz: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $1,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greenway Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST OAKLAND JOB RESOURSE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST OAKLAND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS PROJECT (WOEIP): $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRichmond Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Tipping Point Communi…Silicon Valley Commun…The James Irvine Foun…Crankstart FoundationThe California Endowm…Jewish Community Fede…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Bessemer Giving F…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…
The San Francisco FoundationCA23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Craig Fund Inc co Craig Communications Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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