· Public charity
Kazan McClain Partners' Foundation
To benefit the public through grants to organizations that will help:- support research into the causes of, treatment for, and prevention of occupational and environmental diseases;- increase and improve public awareness about work-place health and safety, and public health;- enhance access to, participation in, and education about the…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $1,215,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,552,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $336,250 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $476k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $431k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY AREA LEGAL AID | $250,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $75,000 |
| EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER | $75,000 |
| WORKSAFE | $73,500 |
| BERKELEY LAW FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $52,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $50,000 |
| UC HASTINGS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $40,000 |
| MOREHOUSE COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| PROJECT WELL | $36,300 |
| LEND A HAND FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $29,000 |
| IMPACT FUND | $28,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- BABAY AREA LEGAL AID8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +96%
- WIWorksafe Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $617k · revenue +183%
- EBEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $597k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SCSHILOH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2023 · $75k
- GHGLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATION TRAINING AND SERVICE INCone grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue -98%
- BCBaylor College of Medicineone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +19%
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.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
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,…
UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…
mental rights of refugee women, children, and LGBT individuals fleeing persecution in their home countries by improving the quality of legal representation available to them and the policies and laws that apply to their protection here in…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
The justice & diversity center (jdc) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational opportunities that foster diversity in the legal profession.
The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. (The Daily Californian) is an independent newspaper that trains UC Berkeley students for careers in journalism and business. The paper and its digital products are the primary source…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Bridge Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 85 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 BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Worksafe Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds SEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds UC LAW SF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WELL ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEND A HAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WEST BAY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC-OAKLANDBAY AREA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BRIDGE CLUB ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JRFREEDOM CTR ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
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 · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Crankstart Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Access to Justice Commission · Stupski Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Impactassetsinc
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 Kazan McClain Partners' 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% 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.
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