How much does Gerbode Foundation give?

Gerbode Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,357,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Gerbode Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Civil Rights (16%), Environment (9%).

Who are Gerbode Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fresh Approach ($575k), Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc ($375k), Transgender Law Center ($375k).

Does Gerbode Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gerbode Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gerbode Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Where is Gerbode Foundation based?

Gerbode Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

Gerbode Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 43
Grants FY2024: 31
Organizations funded FY2023: 26%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 56; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $37M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Gerbode Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	39	$1.3M	44%
FY2023	31	$1.1M	26%
FY2022	40	$1.6M	28%
FY2021	49	$1.9M	31%
FY2020	56	$2.2M	50%
FY2019	44	$1.5M	100%
FY2018	1	$1.6M	0%
FY2017	1	$629k	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fresh Approach	$575,000	6	6%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc	$375,000	4	2%
Transgender Law Center	$375,000	5	1%
MapLight	$325,000	4	6%
Intersection for the Arts	$320,000	4	2%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights	$225,000	3	3%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$190,000	5	1%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space	$175,000	2	4%
Community Music Center	$160,000	4	1%
The Working Group	$160,000	4	12%

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All grantees of Gerbode Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fresh Approach	$575,000	6	6%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc	$375,000	4	2%
Transgender Law Center	$375,000	5	1%
MapLight	$325,000	4	6%
Intersection for the Arts	$320,000	4	2%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights	$225,000	3	3%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$190,000	5	1%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space	$175,000	2	4%
Community Music Center	$160,000	4	1%
The Working Group	$160,000	4	12%
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth	$160,000	4	2%
Alliance for Girls	$160,000	4	3%
Magic Theatre Inc	$155,000	5	7%
Common Cause Education Fund	$155,000	3	0%
Urban Habitat Program	$130,000	4	2%
Baykeeper	$120,000	3	3%
Foodcorps Inc	$120,000	3	0%
Movement Strategy Center	$107,500	3	0%
Center for Applied Research Solutions Inc	$105,000	3	1%
The Trust for Public Land	$100,000	3	0%
Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College	$100,000	1	1%
New Performance Traditions	$100,000	4	5%
The Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California	$100,000	4	0%
Asian American Futures	$100,000	1	4%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund	$100,000	2	0%
Dancers Group	$97,500	3	1%
Independent Arts & Media	$90,000	2	1%
Ashby Village Inc	$90,000	3	6%
The Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance	$90,000	4	15%
The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice	$80,000	2	1%
Sonoma Ecology Center	$80,000	2	1%
The Watershed Project	$75,000	3	5%
The Center for Cultural Power	$75,000	1	1%
Arts for Oakland Kids	$75,000	2	18%
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts	$75,000	3	1%
Womens Audio Mission	$75,000	3	2%
Center for Cultural Innovation	$70,000	2	1%
Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation	$70,000	2	9%
Crowded Fire Theater Company	$65,000	3	6%
Cubacaribe	$65,000	2	39%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo	$55,000	2	3%
Artists in Motion Bay Area	$50,000	2	10%
Hawaii Women in Filmmaking	$50,000	2	25%
San Francisco Jazz Organization	$50,000	2	0%
Gamelan Sekar Jaya	$50,000	2	10%
Noorani Dance	$50,000	2	14%
Oakland Theater Project	$50,000	2	5%
Manilatown Heritage Foundation	$50,000	2	8%
Dance Brigade	$50,000	2	1%
Flyaway Productions	$50,000	2	7%
Social Justice Collaborative	$50,000	2	1%
Malama Makua	$50,000	1	n/a
Sozo Impact Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Golden Thread Productions	$50,000	2	5%
The Lab Sf	$50,000	2	6%
Bindlestiff Studio	$50,000	2	8%
New Breath Foundation	$50,000	1	3%
Life Learning Academy	$50,000	1	1%
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose Incorporated	$50,000	2	4%
The Living Earth Show	$50,000	2	18%
Zaccho Sf	$50,000	2	4%
Audium Incorporated	$50,000	2	14%
Jess Curtisgravity Inc	$50,000	2	7%
The People's Fund	$40,000	1	1%
Kulintang Arts Inc	$40,000	1	16%
The Black Organizing Project Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice	$40,000	1	3%
The Aurora Theatre Company	$40,000	2	1%
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated	$30,000	1	1%
The Kohala Center	$30,000	1	1%
Communities for a Better Environment	$30,000	1	0%
Community Partners	$30,000	1	0%
Council of Community Housing Organizations	$30,000	1	10%
Theatre Bay Area	$25,000	1	3%
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center	$25,000	1	2%
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company	$25,000	1	2%
Ka'Ala Farm Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Chinese Progressive Association	$25,000	1	0%
Hoi Hoi Ea	$25,000	1	n/a
Grantmakers in the Arts	$25,000	5	1%
Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers	$25,000	1	7%
Mosaic America	$25,000	1	3%
Mixed Bag Productions	$25,000	1	n/a
Cutting Ball Theater	$25,000	1	3%
La Luz Center	$25,000	1	1%
One East Palo Alto	$25,000	1	2%
Diamano Coura West African Dance Co	$25,000	1	6%
Family Bridges Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Oaklash	$25,000	1	14%
Sew Productions Inc	$25,000	1	10%
California Association of Nonprofits	$20,000	2	1%
Community Initiatives	$20,000	1	0%
Transformca dba Transform	$20,000	1	1%
Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice	$16,500	1	n/a
Filipino-American Development Foundation	$15,000	1	1%
Parents and Children Together	$10,000	1	0%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Candid	$5,000	1	n/a
Justice Funders	$5,000	2	0%
Hoiwai Fund	$2,500	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.

Gerbode Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

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 95.

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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 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

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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About Gerbode Foundation

How much does Gerbode Foundation give?: Gerbode Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,357,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gerbode Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Civil Rights (16%), Environment (9%).
Who are Gerbode Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fresh Approach ($575k), Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc ($375k), Transgender Law Center ($375k).
Does Gerbode Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gerbode Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gerbode Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where is Gerbode Foundation based?: Gerbode Foundation is based in CA.