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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…

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$392kCommunity Improvement$112kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $206,375, the rows itemized in this filing. The $211,375 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$24,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sacramento Community Land Tru$51,375
THRIVE Santa Ana$24,000
Beverly Vermont Community Lan$24,000
El Sereno Community Land Trus$24,000
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierr$24,000
Richmond Land$24,000
Liberty Community Land Trust$20,000
TRUST South LA$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Richmond Land: $24k → 9%THRIVE Santa Ana: $21k → 10%San Francisco Community Land: $23k → 10%Sacramento Community Land Tru: $51k → 12%Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierr: $24k → 14%Richmond Land: $23k → 9%Sacramento Community Land Tru: $23k → 12%Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierr: $23k → 14%Sacramento CLT: $21k → 12%TRUST South LA: $23k → 14%TRUST South LA: $21k → 14%TRUST South LA: $15k → 14%Liberty Community Land Trust: $23k → 14%Liberty Community Land Trust: $20k → 14%El Sereno Community Land Trus: $24k → 14%El Sereno Community Land Trus: $23k → 14%Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierr: $21k → 14%Beverly Vermont Community Lan: $24k → 14%ACCE Institute: $30k → 14%Beverly Vermont Community Lan: $23k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$381k · 7 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +471% since the first grant, against +81% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$381k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+471%
+81%

Still filing today

86%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’24’25
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    Sacramento Community Land Trust Inc
    2× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +520% · 41% of their budget
  • TS
    THRIVE SANTA ANA
    3× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +458%
  • TQ
    TENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA
    3× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +471%

Funded once

  • AI
    ACCE Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +81%
  • SC
    Sacramento Community Land Tru
    one grant, 2024 · $23k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Tierras Indigenas Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Two Valleys Community Land Trust

The mission of the Two Valleys Community Land Trust is to create, preserve and manage affordable housing in the San Geronimo Valley and beyond.

Housing & Shelter
4
La Chinatown Community Land Trust

LA Chinatown Community Land Trusts mission is to build community power to keep Chinatown livable for low-income and immigrant communities by acquiring property, preserving affordability, and stewarding land for future generations.Its most…

Housing & Shelter
5
South Bay Community Land Trust

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Coalicion de Pequenos Agricultores En California

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…

—
7
Uniondale Community Land Trust Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
8
Northern California Land Trust

NCLT is dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing for people with low to moderate incomes.

—
9
Abundant Housing La

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.

—
10
Cape Fear Community Land Trust Inc

Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…

Housing & Shelter
11
Bay Area Community Land Trust

Support and develop low-income affordable cooperative housing.

Housing & Shelter
12
El Sereno Community Land Trust

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tenemos Que Reclamar Y Unidos Salvar La Tierra-South La; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sacramento Community Land Trust Inc: $72,375 · Housing & ShelterSacramento Community Land Trust IncTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA: $58,930 · Housing & ShelterTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH…FIDEICOMISO COMUNITARIO TIERRA LIBRE: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterFIDEICOMISO COMUNITARIO TIERRA LIBRELIBERTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $42,930 · Housing & ShelterLIBERTY COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTBEVERLY-VERMONT COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $24,000 · Housing & ShelterBEVERLY-VERMONT COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEl Sereno Community Land Trus: $46,930 · OtherEl Sereno Community Land…Sacramento Community Land Tru: $22,930 · OtherSacramento Community Lan…Beverly Vermont Community Lan: $22,930 · OtherBeverly Vermont Communit…Individual grant recipient: $22,930 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…THRIVE SANTA ANA: $67,930 · Community ImprovementTHRIVE SANTA ANARICHMOND LAND: $46,930 · Community ImprovementRICHMOND LANDACCE Institute: $30,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $22,930 · Environment
Housing & Shelter$243,235Other$115,720Community Improvement$114,860Education$30,000Environment$22,930

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSacramento Community Land Trust Inc: $72,375 over 2y, 41% of budgetTHRIVE SANTA ANA: $67,930 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA: $58,930 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetRICHMOND LAND: $46,930 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFIDEICOMISO COMUNITARIO TIERRA LIBRE: $45,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetACCE Institute: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $22,930 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Common Counsel Founda…Possibility LabsCommunity Vision Capi…Liberty Hill Foundati…United Way IncWeingart FoundationEnterprise Community …The San Francisco Fou…California Community …Vanguard Charitable E…
Common Counsel FoundationCA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oakland Community Land Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oakland Community Land Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Oakland Community Land Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Oakland Community Land Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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