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Golden State Community Foundation

To support programs of charitable organizations, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 as amended, that promote education, teamwork, and self-esteem among underserved youth throughout the oakland, san francisco, and san jose areas.

$6.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$386k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$16MYouth Development$6.6MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHealth$912kHuman Services$885kCrime & Legal$554kArts & Culture$553kRecreation & Sports$358kOther$0
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 80 grants below total $5,298,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,555,644 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,257,144 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k28 grants · $970k
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $386k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SELF-ESTEM$385,750
SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS$200,000
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$200,000
TECHBRIDGE GIRLS$192,875
MISSION BIT$192,875
THE OAKLAND PROMISE$160,000
ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$140,000
THE BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$100,000
WE LEAD OURS$79,000
EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER$79,000
HACK THE HOOD$79,000
MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT$79,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND$79,000
PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED$79,000
STREETCODE ACADEMY$79,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A BETTER WAY: $50k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $45k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $30k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SF20000: $20k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $75k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $70k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $50k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $40k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $30k → 10%GLIDE FOUNDATION (FYCC): $30k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GLIDE FOUNDATION (FYCC): $20k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 80 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
39

Total granted

$26M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

91%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • SS
    SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +128%
  • S
    SELF-ESTEM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $883k · revenue +313% · 79% of their budget
  • OP
    OAKLAND PROMISE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $156k · revenue +5%
  • NE
    NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -55%
  • BR
    BEATS RHYMES AND LIFE
    one grant, 2024 · $76k · revenue -27%
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
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.

Philanthropy
2
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
3
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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4
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
5
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
6
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
7
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
8
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
9
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

—
10
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
11
Unity Schools

To prepare its students for admission to and success in college and career,and to become happy and productive members of society.

Education
12
Bay Education Fund

Build a community investment fund that catalyzes local movements and transforms district capacity by bringing together families,communities, teachers, district leaders, and philanthropy to co-design a vision for students and implement…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education for Change; the most unlike its peers is Jayden T Gillespie Foundation Inc. 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

123 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. 123 of the 130 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/123
Grantees still filing
79/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,037,500 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLSOAKLAND PROMISE: $830,000 · EducationOAKLAND PROMISEENVISION EDUCATION INC: $739,188 · EducationENVISION EDUCATION INCTechbridge Girls: $726,675 · EducationTechbridge GirlsUrban Ed Academy: $717,125 · EducationUrban Ed AcademyTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $585,438 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $558,125 · EducationKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $460,000 · EducationASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $450,000 · Education+37 more: $6,704,408 · Education+37 moreOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,175,363 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSELF-ESTEM: $882,612 · OtherSELF-ESTEMBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND: $556,189 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLANDEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $465,501 · OtherEast Oakland Youth Development Ce…ST VINCENTS DAY HOME: $404,000 · OtherBLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK: $349,250 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $325,000 · OtherLITERACY LAB: $310,000 · OtherSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $360,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH: $390,000 · Other+34 more: $2,916,602 · Other+34 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $629,689 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…FIRST GRADUATE: $405,250 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATEPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $392,001 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCA…Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls: $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentScientific Adve…Oakland Kids First: $290,000 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Kids Fi…BOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $270,188 · Youth DevelopmentBOOKER T WASHIN…United Playaz: $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentUnited PlayazTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH: $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BAYVIEW ASS…CAMP PHOENIX: $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INC: $140,000 · Youth Development+9 more: $659,376 · Youth Development+9 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND: $347,875 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $247,875 · HealthLincoln: $135,500 · HealthBEATS RHYMES AND LIFE: $75,688 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $50,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · HealthTandem Community Birth Center and Postpartum House Inc: $45,000 · Health+1 more: $20,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $449,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $73,500 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMission Bit: $394,487 · Arts & CultureHack the Hood Inc: $169,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 Ink: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $365,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $220,000 · Human ServicesA BETTER WAY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35,000 · Human Services
Education$12,808,459Other$8,134,517Youth Development$3,806,504Health$971,938Philanthropy$792,750Arts & Culture$713,487Human Services$670,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,037,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSELF-ESTEM: $882,612 over 6y, 79% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $830,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC: $739,188 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $726,675 over 9y, 25% of budgetUrban Ed Academy: $717,125 over 8y, 17% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $629,689 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $585,438 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $558,125 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND: $556,189 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $465,501 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $460,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $449,250 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $425,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $405,250 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetST VINCENTS DAY HOME: $404,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budget826 Valencia: $400,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMission Bit: $394,487 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $392,001 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $390,188 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $390,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $375,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $365,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $360,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND: $347,875 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $345,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $342,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $330,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND: $325,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLITERACY LAB: $310,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $307,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetScientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls: $305,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS: $303,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $300,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Kids First: $290,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetSan Francisco Achievers: $280,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetKingmakers of Oakland: $270,250 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetBOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $270,188 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUnited Playaz: $270,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $268,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $268,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE: $265,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH: $255,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $250,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $247,875 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES: $235,000 over 9y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SELF-ESTEM ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds ENVISION EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
  • Who funds Urban Ed Academy ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND ↗
  • Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
  • Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENTS DAY HOME ↗
  • Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
  • Who funds Mission Bit ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY LAB ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls ↗
  • Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Kids First ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Achievers ↗

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 FoundationCA81.6× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Ross Stores Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Oakland Public Education Fund

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 Golden State Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden State Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Blueprint Schools Network Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 130 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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