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East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities.

$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$815kCommunity Improvement$270kHealth$60kCivil Rights$60kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$15k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orange County Communities Org$60,000
Working Partnerships USA$60,000
Central Coast Alliance United$60,000
Parent Voices Oakland$40,000
Power Switch Action$10,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Parent Voices Oakland: $40k → 10%Communities United for Restor: $10k → 10%VILLIAGE CONNECT INC: $5k → 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$976k · 6 repeat orgs$499k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$976k
$459k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • UH
    UNITE HERE LOCAL 2
    3× · 2021–2023 · $548k · revenue +134%
  • Working Partnerships USA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $120k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • US
    URBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $227k · revenue -47%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $58k · revenue +7%
  • MI
    MONUMENT IMPACTgraduated
    2× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +302%
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
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
2
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
3
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

—
4
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
5
Santa Cruz Local Inc

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.

—
6
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
7
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

—
8
NorCal Resist

We're community members organizing for a better world , and we invite you to join us. We're building infrastructure against oppression and empowering our communities through shared resources and support.

Civil Rights
9
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
10
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
11
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
12
California Interfaith Power & Light

California Interfaith Power & Light inspires and mobilizes individuals and communities of faith and conscience to take boldand justaction on climate change.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy; the most unlike its peers is Village-Connect Inc. 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITE HERE LOCAL 2: $548,476 · OtherUNITE HERE LOCAL 2URBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL: $227,066 · OtherURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCILAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL: $57,761 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · Other+2 more: $45,990 · OtherORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY COMMUN…Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $120,000 · Community ImprovementCentral Coast Allian…POWERSWITCH ACTION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTIONEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 · Community ImprovementWorking Partnerships USA: $120,000 · HealthWorking P…PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $10,000 · Human ServicesVillage-Connect Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesNorth Bay Jobs With Justice: $48,000 · Civil RightsMONUMENT IMPACT: $39,996 · EmploymentIndependent Arts & Media: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$915,293Community Improvement$272,000Health$120,000Human Services$55,000Civil Rights$48,000Employment$39,996Arts & Culture$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 2: $548,476 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL: $227,066 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $120,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR & ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL: $57,761 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice: $48,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT: $39,996 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Tides CenterKaiser Foundation Hos…The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…Sierra Health Foundat…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Working Partnerships …Latino Community Foun…
The San Francisco FoundationCA25.9× affinity11 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 · Tides Center · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Working Partnerships USA · Latino Community 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 East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy?

    Find your warmest path to East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy 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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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