· Public charity
Oaklandalameda Countyemeryville Firefighters Charity Fund
The mission of the local 55 charity fund is to provide funding and support for worthy charities in the city of oakland as well as the surrounding alameda county.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of OAKLANDALAMEDA COUNTYEMERYVILLE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITY FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $33,055 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $351,358 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $318,303 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| BANANAS | $10,500 |
| EUNIECE LAW THE LEGACY CONTINUES | $6,000 |
| VERTICAL SKILLZ OUTREACH | $5,555 |
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 (FY22–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +65% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- BIBANANAS INCORPORATED3× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +65%
- SVST VINCENTS DAY HOME3× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +79%
- EWEastbay Wildcats3× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $165k
- ACALAMEDA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $100k
- OFOAKLAND FIREFIGHTERS CANCER PREVENTION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $12k
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.
Fire protection
Provides youths with training in fire service and ems.
To serve the membership with integrity by providing the highest quality of representation, safety education and insurance services, and to advance and protect wages, hours, working conditions and the quality of services.
Provide unity for the mutual protection and advancement of the interests and general welfare of firefighters.
The South Bay Fire Department's mission is to provide community fire protection and emergency services. The Department responds to 437 calls per year for fire protection, prevention and emergency services.
We are dedicated to ensuring our members a strong and united voice in the evolution of the Fire Service through unity in leadership political action education and quality member services.
Providing fire protection to the residents of oakland, md and surrounding areas.
To provide children and girls within Northern California with the opportunity to develop character by interacting with other children in sports activities and to provide them with educational guidance and assistance.
Youth baseball teams
Education of Emergency First Responders.
Bike East Bay mobilizes by bike to build thriving communities that are joyful, safe, and inclusive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bananas Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Guardian Training. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 BANANAS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL55 ↗
- Who funds Oakland Firefighters Random Acts ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds Eastbay Wildcats ↗
- Who funds Paramount Theatre of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds The Martin C Kauffman One Hundred Club of Alameda County ↗
- Who funds EUNIECE LAW THE LEGACY CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds Guardian Training ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Oaklandalameda Countyemeryville Firefighters Charity Fund 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.