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Gerbode Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.9MCivil Rights$2.0MEnvironment$1.1MPublic Benefit$750kFood & Nutrition$720kHuman Services$597kPhilanthropy$543kYouth Development$470kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $830k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $510k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenbelt Alliance$100,000
Fresh Approach$75,000
Transgender Law Center$75,000
Common Cause Education Fund$60,000
Malama Makua$50,000
New Breath Foundation$50,000
Independent Arts Media$50,000
Asian Americans Advancing Justice$50,000
Chinese for Affirmative Action$40,000
Alliance for Girls$40,000
Hawaii Peoples Fund$40,000
Coleman Advocates for Children Yout$40,000
Center for Media Justice$40,000
East Bay Community Foundation$40,000
Chinese for Affirmative Action$30,000
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 (FY19–24, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%La Luz Center: $25k → 9%Black Organizing Project Inc: $40k → 10%Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law: $40k → 9%Filipino-American Development Found: $15k → 10%Coleman Children and Youth Services: $40k → 10%Coleman Children and Youth Services: $40k → 10%Coleman Children and Youth Services: $40k → 10%Coleman Children and Youth Services: $40k → 10%Ashby Village: $40k → 10%Ashby Village: $25k → 10%Tides Center: $40k → 10%Ashby Village: $25k → 10%Tides Center: $40k → 10%Tides Center: $40k → 10%Tides Center: $40k → 10%Tides Center: $25k → 10%Tides Center: $25k → 10%Tides Center: $20k → 10%Tides Center: $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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 73 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
34

Total granted

$10M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+20%

Still filing today

84%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FA
    FRESH APPROACH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $575k · revenue +110%
  • Transgender Law Center
    5× · 2019–2024 · $375k · revenue +172%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $375k · revenue +279%

Funded once

  • ASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -36%
  • PU
    PRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -44%
  • THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +81%

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
California Arts Advocates

California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.

Arts & Culture
2
Californians for the Arts

Our mission at Californians for the Arts is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all Californians; are an ongoing part of the public dialogue and to encourage Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their own…

Arts & Culture
3
Center for the Art of Translation

Bay Area community and increases access to literature locally and globally. The Centers publications, events, and educational programming build audiences for literature in translation, enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture…

Arts & Culture
4
Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology Dba Baycat

BAYCAT addresses racial, gender and economic inequity by creating powerful, authentic media while diversifying the creative industry. Through the education and employment of low-income youth, young people of color, and young women in the…

Community Improvement
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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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9
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
10
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
11
CounterPulse

exchange of art and ideas, catalyzing transformation in our communities and our society. We work towards a world that celebrates diversity of race, class, cultural heritage, artistic expression, ability, gender identity & sexual…

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12
World Arts West

Founded in 1978, World Arts West is a nationally-recognized leader in advocating for cultural arts communities. Serving the largest multicultural dance and music network in the United States, we are a wraparound cultural artist service…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Cultural Power and the most unlike its peers is Diamano Coura West African Dance Co. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%1%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/108
the rest of the field
13%
3,540/28,039

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

106 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. 106 of the 131 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/106
Grantees still filing
68/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

See Grant Statement — $2,216,500 · OtherSee Grant StatementRoot Rebound — $375,000 · OtherRoot Rebound+67 more — $3,488,500 · Other+67 moreIntersection for the Arts — $320,000 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the …COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $160,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTE…MAGIC THEATRE INC — $155,000 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INCNew Performance Traditions — $100,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROUP — $97,500 · Arts & CultureIndependent Arts & Media — $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MAHEA UCHIYAMA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DANCE — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+29 more — $1,310,000 · Arts & Culture+29 moreTransgender Law Center — $375,000 · Civil RightsTransgender …ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $375,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERIC…ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $225,000 · Civil RightsELLA BAKER C…Chinese for Affirmative Action — $190,000 · Civil RightsChinese for …CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR E…The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $80,000 · Civil RightsThe Center f…FRESH APPROACH — $575,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INC — $120,000 · Food & NutritionGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $175,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeper — $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 · EnvironmentSonoma Ecology Center — $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHED PROJECT — $75,000 · EnvironmentKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $55,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE KOHALA CENTER — $30,000 · EnvironmentTIDES CENTER — $250,000 · Human ServicesColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $160,000 · Human ServicesAshby Village Inc — $90,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE — $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Black Organizing Project Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE'S FUND — $40,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTER — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesMapLight — $325,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $155,000 · Public Benefit
Other$6,080,000Arts & Culture$2,322,500Civil Rights$1,345,000Food & Nutrition$695,000Environment$665,000Human Services$660,000Public Benefit$480,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRESH APPROACH — $575,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetTransgender Law Center — $375,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $375,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMapLight — $325,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $320,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $225,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $190,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $175,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $160,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAlliance for Girls — $160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetThe Working Group — $160,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $160,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC — $155,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $155,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Habitat Program — $130,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBaykeeper — $120,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFOODCORPS INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $107,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNew Performance Traditions — $100,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDANCERS GROUP — $97,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media — $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAshby Village Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE MAHEA UCHIYAMA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DANCE — $90,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetSonoma Ecology Center — $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARTS FOR OAKLAND KIDS — $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WATERSHED PROJECT — $75,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $70,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCenter for Cultural Innovation — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCrowded Fire Theater Company — $65,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCUBACARIBE — $65,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKUA AINA ULU AUAMO — $55,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGolden Thread Productions — $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE LIVING EARTH SHOW — $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetARTISTS IN MOTION BAY AREA — $50,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetNoorani Dance — $50,000 over 2y, 14% 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 Zellerbach Family…Kenneth Rainin Founda…The William & Flora H…The San Francisco Fou…Walter and Elise Haas…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…East Bay Community Fo…Fleishhacker Foundati…The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…Center for Cultural I…Marin Community Found…
The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA75.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · Marin Community 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 Gerbode 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 131 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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