· Public charity
New Breath Foundation
NEW BREATH FOUNDATION provides pivotal grassroots organizations the sustainable resources they need to give new beginnings to aanhpis harmed by incarceration, deportation, and systems of violence in the u.s.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of New Breath Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to East Bay Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year New Breath Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $75k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $75,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $101,458 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,458 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 |
|---|---|
| SURVIVED & PUNISHED | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANC | $15,000 |
| KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN INTEG | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of New Breath Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC3× · 2019–2023 · $48k · revenue +58%
Chinese for Affirmative Action2× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +235%- IMInterfaith Movement for Human Integrity2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- MAMONSOON ASIANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN SOLIDARITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +947%
- VOVILLAGE OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -78%
- CLCentral Law Groupone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.
Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
CAAAV was founded in 1986 as one of the first groups in the United States to respond to racially motivated violence against Asians. Since then, CAAAV has broaden its focus to address a wide array of needs and challenges facing the Asian…
National CAPACD advances equity and creates vibrant, healthy neighborhoods by mobilizing and strengthening a powerful coalition of community-based organizations working in low-income Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander…
APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.
Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.
Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.
It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…
The Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR) envisions a strong and unified Vietnamese American community that works towards improving our quality of life. To this end, VAR focuses our mission to organize, advocate, and educate our community.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Solidarity and the most unlike its peers is Instituto Lab. 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 27 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 34 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 EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity ↗
- Who funds MONSOON ASIANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG ↗
- Who funds Instituto Lab ↗
- Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MN8 ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN ↗
- Who funds FOU MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERING REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Mekong Inc ↗
- Who funds United Playaz ↗
- Who funds ANAMATANGI POLYNESIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gofundmeorg · The San Francisco Foundation · Asian Law Caucus · The Asian American Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The California Endowment · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
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 New Breath 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.
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% 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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