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Epstein-Roth Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$375k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$610kFood & Nutrition$591kEnvironment$328kHealth$243kEmployment$105kInternational$103kPublic Benefit$95kCivil Rights$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$100,000
SEACOLOGY$35,000
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$30,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$25,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT$25,000
VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$25,000
VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT$25,000
CALCAN$25,000
ONE FARE WAGE$25,000
BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK$25,000
AS YOU SOW$15,000
HAWK CREEK FARM$15,000
WELLS MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONE FAIR WAGE: $30k → 8%ACCELERATE CHANGE: $45k → 16%SEACOLOGY: $35k → 10%CALCAN: $25k → 12%VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $25k → 14%FOOD CORPS: $25k → 12%ONE FARE WAGE: $25k → 8%ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $30k → 16%SEACOLOGY: $33k → 10%CALCAN: $20k → 12%VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $45k → 14%FOOD CORPS: $25k → 12%ONE FARE WAGE: $25k → 8%SEACOLOGY: $30k → 10%SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION: $25k → 10%VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25k → 14%FOOD CORPS: $25k → 12%ONE FARE WAGE: $25k → 8%SEACOLOGY: $30k → 10%SEACOLOGY: $30k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $30k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK: $25k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL: $28k → 10%SEACOLOGY: $25k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL: $25k → 10%SEACOLOGY: $25k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL: $25k → 10%SEACOLOGY: $25k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL: $25k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $20k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $20k → 10%HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM: $20k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%UC BERKELEY-THE BERKELEY FOOD INSTITUTE FUND: $100k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%UC BERKELEY-THE BERKELEY FOOD INSTITUTE FUND: $100k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%UC BERKELEY-THE BERKELEY FOOD INSTITUTE FUND: $100k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UC BERKELEY-THE GSPP FOOD LABOR RESEARCH CENTER FUND: $25k → 10%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UC BERKELEY-THE GSPP FOOD LABOR RESEARCH CENTER FUND: $25k → 10%DEEP MEDICINE CIRCLE: $20k → 10%DEEP MEDICINE CIRCLE: $20k → 10%PLANTING JUSTICE: $50k → 10%PLANTING JUSTICE: $25k → 10%PLANTING JUSTICE: $21k → 10%BERKELEY PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND: $35k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 15 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$2.1M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+63%

Still filing today

73%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • Homeless Prenatal Program Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +153%
  • WM
    WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +25%
  • PJ
    Planting Justice
    3× · 2019–2023 · $96k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • BP
    Berkeley Public Schools Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +74%
  • IF
    Intersection for the Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +34%
  • VA
    Vital Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +328%

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
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
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
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
5
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
6
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
7
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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8
Foundation for Sustainable Development

The Foundation for Sustainable Development FSD or the Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, whose mission is to achieve community-driven goals through asset-based development and international exchange in…

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9
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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10
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
11
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
12
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is Golden Bridges School. 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 19 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%30%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr14%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr19%54%20–35yr14%3%35–55yr14%1%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
12%
4,356/36,375

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

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $560,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONUC BERKELEY-THE BERKELEY FOOD INSTITUTE FUND — $300,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY-THE BERKELEY FOOD INSTITUTE FUNDSEACOLOGY — $232,500 · OtherSEACOLOGYAS YOU SOW — $60,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY-THE GSPP FOOD LABOR RESEARCH CENTER FUND — $50,000 · OtherCALCAN — $45,000 · Other+4 more — $78,100 · Other+4 moreONE FAIR WAGE INC — $105,000 · Civil RightsONE FAIR WAG…ACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE C…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $70,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PA…Homeless Prenatal Program Inc — $192,500 · HealthHomeless Pre…Deep Medicine Circle — $50,000 · HealthDeep Medicin…Planting Justice — $95,500 · EnvironmentSustainable Conservation — $25,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentFOODCORPS INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionBerkeley Food Network — $55,000 · Food & NutritionWELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC — $102,500 · InternationalBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $35,000 · EducationGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 · EducationIntersection for the Arts — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVital Arts Inc — $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,325,600Civil Rights$250,000Health$242,500Environment$130,500Food & Nutrition$130,000International$102,500Education$50,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEACOLOGY — $232,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $192,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC — $102,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetPlanting Justice — $95,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFOODCORPS INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBerkeley Food Network — $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDeep Medicine Circle — $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVital Arts Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLIVING DREAM ARTS — $13,100 over 1y, 21% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Epstein-Roth 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Epstein-Roth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Epstein-Roth 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.

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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines