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Embarcadero Media Foundation

EMBARCADERO MEDIA FOUNDATION seeks to enhance the quality of life and public engagement in the san francisco bay area by supporting accurate and professional local news coverage of the region, making grants to nonprofit organizations providing needed social & human services to the community; increased in-depth and investigative…

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
63
Itemized grants FY2024
63
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$926k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$42,500
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.9M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Philanthropy$578kEducation$461kHuman Services$285kHealth$195kFood & Nutrition$190kYouth Development$165kEmployment$155kArts & Culture$130kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center$85,00020%
City of Redwood City$70,0002n/a
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$70,00020%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$70,00020%
Literacy Partners - Menlo Park$70,0002n/a
Lifemoves$70,00020%
StarVista$70,00020%
St Anthony of Padua Church$70,0002n/a
Ecumenical Hunger Program$70,00021%
Upward Scholars$70,00023%
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All grantees of Embarcadero Media Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center$85,00020%
City of Redwood City$70,0002n/a
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$70,00020%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$70,00020%
Literacy Partners - Menlo Park$70,0002n/a
Lifemoves$70,00020%
StarVista$70,00020%
St Anthony of Padua Church$70,0002n/a
Ecumenical Hunger Program$70,00021%
Upward Scholars$70,00023%
Palo Alto Community Child Care$55,00020%
Youth Community Services Inc$40,00022%
Pursuit Of Excellence$40,00022%
Ada's Cafe$40,00022%
Epacenter$40,00021%
East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring$40,00021%
Dream Catchers Inc$30,00022%
Wehope$30,00020%
Counseling and Support Services for Youth$30,00021%
Kara$30,00021%
Peninsula Volunteers Inc$30,00020%
East Palo Alto Kids Foundation$30,00025%
Ravenswood Classroom Partners$30,00029%
Downtown Streets Inc$30,00020%
Foundation for a College Education$30,00021%
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation$20,00021%
Rise Together Education Inc$20,00028%
Peninsula Healthcare Connection Inc$20,00020%
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto$20,00021%
Palo Alto Players Peninsula Center Stage$20,00021%
Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet$20,00020%
Learning Home Volunteers$20,00025%
Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo$20,00023%
The Circuit Epa$20,000212%
Chac Fka Community Health Awareness Council$15,00020%
Hopes Corner Inc$15,00021%
Theatreworks Silicon Valley$15,00020%
Palo Alto Friends Nursery School$15,00021%
The Peninsula College Fund$15,00020%
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc$15,00020%
Parents Nursery School Inc$15,00023%
Music in the Schools Foundation$15,000211%
Mentor Tutor Connection$15,00022%
Covenant Children's Center$15,00021%
Adolescent Counseling Services$15,00021%
Silicon Valley Urban Debate League$15,00022%
Peninsula Family Connections$15,00020%
The Learning Center of Palo Alto Inc$15,00021%
All Five$15,00020%
Trust for Hidden Villa$15,00020%
Grace Lutheran Church$15,0002n/a
International Documentary Foundation Inc$15,00020%
Art in Action$15,00021%
East Palo Alto Academy Foundation$15,00020%
Day Worker Center of Mountain View$15,00021%
Environmental Volunteers Inc$15,00021%
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired$15,00020%
Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc$15,00020%
East Palo Alto Community Archive$15,00022%
Hope Hangar Inc$15,0002n/a
Community School of Music and Arts$15,00020%
Hope Horizon East Palo Alto$15,00021%
RISE-Reaching and Inspiring Success through Education$11,00022%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Embarcadero Media Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLifemoves: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStarVista: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEcumenical Hunger Program: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUpward Scholars: $70,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPalo Alto Community Child Care: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Community Services Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPursuit Of Excellence: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAda's Cafe: $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEpacenter: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEast Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDream Catchers Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWehope: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCounseling and Support Services for Youth: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKara: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPeninsula Volunteers Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEast Palo Alto Kids Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetRavenswood Classroom Partners: $30,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for a College Education: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPalo Alto Art Center Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRise Together Education Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPeninsula Healthcare Connection Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNuestra Casa de East Palo Alto: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPalo Alto Players Peninsula Center Stage: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetActerra Action for a Healthy Planet: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLearning Home Volunteers: $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetFriends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThe Circuit Epa: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetChac Fka Community Health Awareness Council: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHopes Corner Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTheatreworks Silicon Valley: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalo Alto Friends Nursery School: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Peninsula College Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParents Nursery School Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMusic in the Schools Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMentor Tutor Connection: $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCovenant Children's Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAdolescent Counseling Services: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSilicon Valley Urban Debate League: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPeninsula Family Connections: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Learning Center of Palo Alto Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAll Five: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrust for Hidden Villa: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Documentary Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 58.

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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 Palo Alto Communi…Atkinson FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Philanthropic Venture…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Gordon E and Betty I …Sand Hill FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Sobrato Family Fo…Palo Alto Rotary Club…Jewish Community Fede…John and Marcia Goldm…
The Palo Alto Community FundCA88.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Palo Alto Community Fund · Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Palo Alto Rotary Club Annual Charities Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · John and Marcia Goldman 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.

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How do I get to Embarcadero Media Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Embarcadero Media Foundation 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.

About Embarcadero Media Foundation

How much does Embarcadero Media Foundation give?
Embarcadero Media Foundation reported 63 itemized grants totaling $925,500, out of $1,100,210 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Embarcadero Media Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (19%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Embarcadero Media Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center ($85k), City of Redwood City ($70k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($70k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Embarcadero Media Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Palo Alto Community Fund, Atkinson Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Embarcadero Media Foundation based?
Embarcadero Media Foundation is based in CA.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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