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East Bay Community Foundation
The EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is a leading resource for mobilizing resources and community leadership to transform the lives of people in the east bay with pressing needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 842 grants below total $62,841,046 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,946,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,105,708 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k125 grants · $881k
- $10k–50k481 grants · $10M
- $50k–250k199 grants · $19M
- $250k+37 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION | $5,500,000 |
| FIRE AID | $3,862,675 |
| VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND | $2,287,159 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC | $2,260,634 |
| COMMON HEALTH COALITION | $2,013,732 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,541,000 |
| PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS | $1,500,000 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $1,472,146 |
| CITY OF OAKLAND DEPARTMENT OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $1,012,000 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE | $800,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ROWING CLUB | $755,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $672,135 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $536,197 |
| ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES | $500,742 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $49.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of East Bay Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
1124 repeat relationships — 555 still active in FY2025, 569 since wound down; 172 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
- FHFUTURO HEALTH3× · 2021–2023 · $103M · revenue ×38
Public Health Institute4× · 2021–2024 · $40M · revenue +6%- TPTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16M · revenue +150% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCIVICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10M · revenue -75%
- HSHEALTH SHARE OF OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5.1M · revenue +49%
- AAASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INCone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -77%
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,…
California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…
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 Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.
The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…
California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.
Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice, and equality.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is International Tennis Hall of Fame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
1809 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1809 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FUTURO HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds MK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIVICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUTH INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDENS AT PALMDALE ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD SISTERS HOSPITAL DBA ST ROSE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SHARE OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPACE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS ↗
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: Sunlight Giving · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · United Way of the Bay Area · Tipping Point Community · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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 East Bay Community 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.
- Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- Health Share of Oregon — 0% 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.