· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 80 grants below total $5,298,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,555,644 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,257,144 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k28 grants · $970k
- $50k–250k51 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $79,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND | $79,000 |
| HACK THE HOOD | $79,000 |
| MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT | $79,000 |
| EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $79,000 |
| STREETCODE ACADEMY | $79,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k 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
- SSSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +128%
- SSELF-ESTEM6× · 2020–2025 · $883k · revenue +313% · 79% of their budget
- OPOAKLAND PROMISE9× · 2017–2025 · $830k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $156k · revenue +5%
- NENATIONAL EQUITY PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -55%
- BRBEATS RHYMES AND LIFEone grant, 2024 · $76k · revenue -27%
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
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…
Through a combined effort of staff, students, parents, and community baytech students will learn the necessary skills required for college and career readiness by engaging in a rigorous curriculum emphasizing stem. our students will…
To prepare its students for admission to and success in college and career,and to become happy and productive members of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education for Change and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
123 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. 123 of the 130 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
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 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 ↗
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 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
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 Golden State Community 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.
- 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
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.