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Oakland Community Land Trust
Combating community deterioration and expanding housing and economic opportunities for low and moderate income residents; promoting neighborhood stability and community involvement through permanently affordable homeownership and equity sharing options; supporting development of commercial and retail facilities that serve working…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $206,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $211,375 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sacramento Community Land Tru | $51,375 |
| Beverly Vermont Community Lan | $24,000 |
| Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierr | $24,000 |
| El Sereno Community Land Trus | $24,000 |
| Richmond Land | $24,000 |
| THRIVE Santa Ana | $24,000 |
| Liberty Community Land Trust | $20,000 |
| TRUST South LA | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
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 +471% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SCSacramento Community Land Trust Inc2× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +520% · 41% of their budget
- TSTHRIVE SANTA ANA3× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +458%
- TQTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA3× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +471%
Funded once
- AIACCE Institutegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +81%
- SCSacramento Community Land Truone grant, 2024 · $23k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of the Two Valleys Community Land Trust is to create, preserve and manage affordable housing in the San Geronimo Valley and beyond.
Combating community deterioration and expanding housing and economic opportunities for low and moderate income residents; promoting neighborhood stability and community involvement through permanently affordable homeownership and equity…
Tierras Indigenas Community Land Trust is a non-profit comprised of residents and organizers working together to purchase land in Historic Barrios in order to keep it in the hands of the community to fight displacement and gentrification.
The mission of South Bay Community Land Trust (SBCLT) is to acquire & manage real estate for community benefit to combat displacement, land speculation, and community deterioration, and to expand housing development opportunities for…
The Uniondale Community Land Trust, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose mission includes community renewal, revitalization, integration, and empowerment. Utilizing cooperative models of leadership and ownership, the Uniondale CLT,…
Preserve and manage affordable housing and other community-serving resources in the LA Chinatown community to prevent displacement of low-income, long-term, immigrant and senior residents of the community.
Support and develop low-income affordable cooperative housing.
El Sereno Community Land Trust is a group of committed residents and stakeholders who provide opportunities for the residents of El Sereno, Los Angeles to secure community land and housing that is decent, affordable and that is held in…
NCLT is dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing for people with low to moderate incomes.
To encourage, advocate for, and support the creation of an equitable and environmentally sustainable region where all current and future Angelenos can afford to live, including through legislation, regulations, and government programs.
Mission Dedicated to empowering farmworkers and low-income individuals through comprehensive economic development and social services, fostering equitable opportunities and sustainable growth. We strive to create supportive communities…
To help the community have access to affordable housing that they will ultimatley own as well as supporting the arts and beautification of Fresnos Tower District.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tenemos Que Reclamar Y Unidos Salvar La Tierra-South La and the most unlike its peers is Acce Institute. 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 13 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 Sacramento Community Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SANTA ANA ↗
- Who funds TENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND LAND ↗
- Who funds FIDEICOMISO COMUNITARIO TIERRA LIBRE ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY-VERMONT COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
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: Common Counsel Foundation · Possibility Labs · Community Vision Capital & Consulting · Liberty Hill Foundation · United Way Inc · Weingart Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Oakland Community Land Trust 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.
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