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Epstein-Roth Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CALCAN$25,000
BERKELEY FOOD NETWORK$25,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$25,000
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT$25,000
ONE FARE WAGE$25,000
VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$25,000
VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT$25,000
AS YOU SOW$15,000
HAWK CREEK FARM$15,000
WELLS MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
  • VA
    Vital Arts Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +328%
  • IF
    Intersection for the Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +34%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationVital Arts Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the Arts: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetVital Arts Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING DREAM ARTS: $13,100 over 1y, 21% of budgetGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…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

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 Epstein-Roth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Epstein-Roth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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-PF 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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where grant money is based, and what stays home