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Jack London Improvement District
Our mission is to create, promote and maintain an inviting environment for people who visit, live or work in the jack london district, and build an inclusive and resilient commercial community...
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $176,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $185,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,400 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKRIDGE DISTRICT ASSOCIATION | $24,700 |
| OAKLAND CHINATOWN IMPROVEMENT COUNC | $20,000 |
| KOREATOWN NORTHGATE IMPROVEMENT DIS | $20,000 |
| TEMESCALTELEGRAPH AVENUE COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| LAUREL DISTRICT | $14,700 |
| MONTCLAIR VILLAGE ASSOCIATION | $14,700 |
| DIMOND IMPROVEMENT ASSOC | $14,700 |
| GRAND AVE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION | $14,700 |
| PIEDMONT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION | $13,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND | $10,000 |
| LAKESHORE AVENUE BUSINESS IMPROVEME | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
The Downtown Berkely Assocaition works to strengthen the Downtown as a vibrant and welcoming urban destination for arts, culture, and commerce through effective advocacy, prmotion and direct services.
Provide resources and assistance to vietnamese small businesses and community in oakland area
Our mission is to create, promote and maintain an inviting environment for people who visit, live or work in the jack london district, and build an inclusive and resilient commercial community... (see schedule o)
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To promote vitality and growth to businesses and advocate for the Oakland Chinatown community
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The Ocean Avenue Association advances the common good, general welfare, and quality of life for all residents and visitors of the District by enhancing its environmental quality and beauty in and around the District and by reinforcing the…
The Kelseyville Business Association works to maintain our town as a safe, clean, attractive place in which to live and an appealing destination to visit. It promotes economic growth through solicitation of new businesses, patronizing…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dimond Improvement Association and the most unlike its peers is Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 ROCKRIDGE DISTRICT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEMESCAL TELEGRAPH AVENUE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council ↗
- Who funds KOREA TOWN OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds DIMOND IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Laurel District Association ↗
- Who funds Montclair Village Association ↗
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds Lakeshore Avenue Business Improvement District ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jack London Improvement District 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.
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.