· Private foundation
Nia Community Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION | $37,000 |
| SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC | $20,000 |
| MOSAIC PROJECT | $15,000 |
| SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE | $14,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS INC | $12,000 |
| MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL | $10,610 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE VILLAGE HEALING INC | $10,000 |
| IGNITE | $10,000 |
| BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| IGNITE | $10,000 |
| NDN COLLECTIVE INC | $10,000 |
| WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC | $10,000 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDRENS FUND | $7,500 |
| OAKLAND CHILDRENS FAIRYLAND INC | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
94 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 25 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +7%
- TMTHE MOSAIC PROJECT6× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +2%
AMERICAN RIVERS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- IICAFUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +35%
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +14%
- PFPOWERPAC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -68%
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.
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,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
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.
How this is measured
272 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 272 of the 293 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR AFRO ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON LAW ↗
- Who funds REBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds City Surf Project ↗
- Who funds United Roots ↗
- Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Empower Work Inc ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds ICAFUND ↗
- Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · The California Endowment
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nia Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nia Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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