· Private foundation
Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $953k
- $50k–250k68 grants · $8.8M
- $250k+18 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES CENTER | $3,312,500 |
| GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $2,179,400 |
| POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE | $1,607,500 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $1,524,500 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $750,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $690,000 |
| CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND | $650,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $640,750 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $420,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC | $418,525 |
| COMPLETE COLLEGE AMERICA INC | $345,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS | $320,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $305,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $300,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $22.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 12% of Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund’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 +49% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
296 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2024, 174 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +189%
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +96%
- PCPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE3× · 2022–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CHANGEone grant, 2023 · $207k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- PIPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2017 · $165k
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
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The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
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The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Cares Foundation. 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 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
440 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. 440 of the 556 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 TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COACHING CORPS ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Horizons Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds POWER CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEFINE AMERICAN INC ↗
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: The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Center · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Stupski 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 Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund 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.
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 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.
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