· Private foundation
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k47 grants · $5.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BASIC FUND | $1,080,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO & MARIN FOOD BANK | $225,000 |
| EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $200,000 |
| EXTRAFOOD ORG | $200,000 |
| ALAMEDA CO COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL | $153,000 |
| NORTH MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $150,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $150,000 |
| SMART | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO | $150,000 |
| BAYCAT | $145,000 |
| MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT | $130,000 |
| PROJECT AVARY | $125,000 |
| 826 VALENCIA | $125,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY | $125,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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 +53% since the first grant, against -35% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k 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
- TBTHE BASIC FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +28%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $760k · revenue +28%
- EOEast Oakland Youth Development Center5× · 2020–2024 · $751k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSSENIOR OUTREACHone grant, 2021 · $150k
- AOALLIANCE OF MISSION DIST CATH SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $120k
- SOSERVICE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SENIORSone grant, 2021 · $120k
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,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
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.
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.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Martin Luther King Jrfreedom Ctr. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 12% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 137 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 THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds Extrafood ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Food Network ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds Womens Audio Mission ↗
- Who funds FOOD RUNNERS ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRADUATES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds Next Generation Scholars Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center ↗
- Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CANTARE CON VIVO ↗
- Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Chapter 510 Ink ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
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 · Marin Community Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long 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 Crescent Porter Hale Foundation 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.
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% 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.
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