· Private foundation
Hard Yaka Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS | $9,000 |
| SWOP BEHIND BARS | $9,000 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER | $4,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $4,000 |
| WESTERN STATES TRAIL ENDOWMENT | $3,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DIVIDE EQUESTRIAN TRAILS | $2,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR VILONCE FREE | $2,000 |
| JOURNEY TO THE HEAR HORSE SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
| LEAP | $1,000 |
| MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +995% since the first grant, against -67% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $55k
- MCMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +46%
- WSWestern States Trail Endowment Fund2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +995%
Funded once
- PPPROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- UCUKRANINA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
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.
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
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,…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.
San Francisco Transit Riders is the city's rider-based grassroots advocate forworld-class transit. Together with our members we work for an excellent,affordable, and growing public transit system because it is essential to thecharacter and…
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION ↗
- Who funds SWOP BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Western States Trail Endowment Fund ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hard Yaka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hard Yaka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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