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East Bay Foundation on Aging

The mission of the EAST BAY FOUNDATION ON AGING is to improve the quality of life of the elderly through grants to nonprofit organizations in the east bay.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$1.9MFood & Nutrition$786kHealth$455kCrime & Legal$253kCommunity Improvement$135kHousing & Shelter$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kYouth Development$15k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RECARES NETWORK$30,000
SENIOR SERVICES COALITION OF ALAMEDA COUNTY$17,500
MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER$17,500
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS$17,500
ST MARY'S CENTER$17,500
J-SEI$17,500
CENTER FOR ELDERS INDEPENDENCE$17,000
PEERS ENVISIONING AND ENGAGING IN RECOVERY SERVICES$15,000
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY$15,000
EAST OAKLAND COLLECTIVE$15,000
OAKLAND LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
SERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS AKA SOSMEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
UNITED SENIORS OF OAKLAND AND ALAMEDA COUNTY$15,000
DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS$15,000
THE UNITY COUNCIL$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $15k → 10%THE RECARES NETWORK: $45k → 10%RECARES: $35k → 10%RECARES NETWORK: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $30k → 10%THE RECARES NETWORK: $30k → 10%RECARES NETWORK: $30k → 10%THE RECARES NETWORK: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $30k → 10%RECARES NETWORK: $30k → 10%RECARES NETWORK: $30k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $25k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE: $25k → 10%RECARES NETWORK: $20k → 10%CENTER FOR ELDERS INDEPENDENCE: $17k → 10%J-SEI: $35k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $30k → 10%J-SEI: $18k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $35k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT & CARE CENTER: $30k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT & CARE CENTER: $30k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $30k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $30k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $30k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $25k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $18k → 10%SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 23 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
6

Total granted

$3.6M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-28%

Still filing today

96%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TR
    The ReCARES Network
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +168% · 42% of their budget
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +89%
  • LA
    LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $253k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • FB
    FAMILY BRIDGES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • IF
    INTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

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2
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
3
Curry Senior Center

To provide services to seniors that promote independent living while maintaining their dignity and self-esteem.

Human Services
4
San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society
Health
5
Legal Assistance to the Elderly

LAE's mission is to protect and advance the right of San Franciscos seniors and adults with disabilities to be housed, healthy, financially stable, and safe. We provide free legal services to San Francisco seniors and adults with…

Crime & Legal
6
West Contra Costa County Meals On Wheels

Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…

Food & Nutrition
7
Korean Community Center of the East Bay

The mission of KCCEB is to empower the Korean American and other communities of the Bay Area through education, advocacy, service and the development of community-based resources.

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8
Alameda County Homeless Action Center

HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…

Housing & Shelter
9
Bayanihan Equity Center

The Bayanihan Equity Center provides culturally responsive services to address the needs and advance the rights of marginalized communities in pursuit of equity and justice.

Public Benefit
10
The Spahr Center

The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.

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11
Alameda Emergency Food Dba Alameda Food Bank

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition
12
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc

Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Service Opportunity for Seniors and the most unlike its peers is Ethiopian Community Cultural Center Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr16%7%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr11%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr11%25%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/31
the rest of the field
13%
1,363/10,225

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 31 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The ReCARES Network — $280,000 · Human ServicesThe ReCARES NetworkJ-SEI INC — $262,500 · Human ServicesJ-SEI INCDayBreak Adult Care Centers — $245,000 · Human ServicesDayBreak Adult Care CentersMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER — $237,500 · Human ServicesMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTERSPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES — $40,000 · Human Services+2 more — $27,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CENTER — $232,500 · OtherST MARY'S CENTERUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County — $199,824 · OtherUnited Seniors of Oakland and …Bay Area Community Services Inc — $120,000 · OtherBay Area Community Services In…ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER INC — $100,000 · OtherETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL C…EAST BAY KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR SERVICES CENTER — $60,000 · OtherEAST BAY KOREAN AMERICAN SENIO…ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $60,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD …EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGOLDSTAR SENIOR SHARED HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $40,000 · Other+5 more — $95,000 · Other+5 moreAlzheimers Services of the East Bay — $225,000 · HealthAlzheimers Servi…Crisis Support Services of Alameda County — $200,000 · HealthCrisis Support S…LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE — $80,000 · HealthLIFELONG MEDICAL…PEERS ENVISIONING AND ENGAGING IN RECOVERY SERVICES — $45,000 · HealthPEERS ENVISIONIN…MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $260,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS…SERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $250,000 · Food & NutritionSERVICE OPPORTU…LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS — $252,500 · Crime & LegalVIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $245,000 · Recreation & SportsOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $45,000 · Community ImprovementSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $45,000 · Community ImprovementThe East Oakland Collective — $45,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$1,092,000Other$1,007,324Health$550,000Food & Nutrition$510,500Crime & Legal$252,500Recreation & Sports$245,000Community Improvement$135,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe ReCARES Network — $280,000 over 9y, 42% of budgetJ-SEI INC — $262,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $260,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS — $252,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $250,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetVIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $245,000 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetDayBreak Adult Care Centers — $245,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER — $237,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER — $232,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAlzheimers Services of the East Bay — $225,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCrisis Support Services of Alameda County — $200,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County — $199,824 over 9y, 18% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc — $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 6y, 88% of budgetLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY KOREAN AMERICAN SENIOR SERVICES CENTER — $60,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe East Oakland Collective — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPEERS ENVISIONING AND ENGAGING IN RECOVERY SERVICES — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDSTAR SENIOR SHARED HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $40,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetINTERTRIBAL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER FOR ELDERS' INDEPENDENCE INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENTORING CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Alameda County Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Senior Assistance Fou…The California Endowm…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Wellne…Akonadi FoundationHedco FoundationScan Health PlanSutter Bay Hospitals
East Bay Community FoundationCA44.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay · The California Endowment · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · Hedco Foundation · Scan Health Plan · Sutter Bay 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 Foundation on Aging 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your 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
    13report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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