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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.

$351k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$165kPublic Safety & Disaster$158kHuman Services$71kEducation$31kFood & Nutrition$13kHealth$12kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $33,055, the rows itemized in this filing. The $351,358 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $318,303 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$10,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$358k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$11,000
BANANAS$10,500
EUNIECE LAW THE LEGACY CONTINUES$6,000
VERTICAL SKILLZ OUTREACH$5,555
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BANANAS: $11k → 10%BANANAS: $10k → 10%EUNIECE LAW THE LEGACY CONTINUES: $6k → 10%BANANAS: $16k → 10%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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$136k · 6 repeat orgs$354k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$136k
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+46%

Still filing today

83%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BI
    BANANAS INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +65%
  • SV
    ST VINCENTS DAY HOME
    3× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +79%
  • EW
    Eastbay Wildcats
    3× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $165k
  • AC
    ALAMEDA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • OF
    OAKLAND FIREFIGHTERS CANCER PREVENTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
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 Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Fire protection

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2
San Francisco Fire Youth Academy

Provides youths with training in fire service and ems.

Youth Development
3
International Assoc of Firefighters Local 55

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.

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4
Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Local 522

Provide unity for the mutual protection and advancement of the interests and general welfare of firefighters.

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5
South Bay Fire Department Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
California State Firefighters Association

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.

Community Improvement
7
Sbds Sports Academy Sacramento
Recreation & Sports
8
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Providing fire protection to the residents of oakland, md and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Bay Ultimate Youth Affiliate

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Oakland Express

Youth baseball teams

Recreation & Sports
11
California Fire Chiefs Ems Fire and Education Foundation

Education of Emergency First Responders.

Education
12
East Bay Bicycle Coalition Dba Bike East Bay

Bike East Bay mobilizes by bike to build thriving communities that are joyful, safe, and inclusive.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bananas Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $164,640 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALAMEDA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $100,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENTALAMEDA COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL55: $31,950 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL55Oakland Firefighters Random Acts: $20,877 · OtherST VINCENTS DAY HOME: $17,500 · Other+9 more: $72,967 · Other+9 moreBANANAS INCORPORATED: $36,555 · Human ServicesBANANAS I…EUNIECE LAW THE LEGACY CONTINUES: $6,000 · Human ServicesEUNIECE L…Eastbay Wildcats: $17,238 · EducationBAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM: $5,000 · EducationParamount Theatre of the Arts Inc: $11,682 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGuardian Training: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$407,934Human Services$42,555Education$22,238Arts & Culture$11,682Philanthropy$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBANANAS INCORPORATED: $36,555 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL55: $31,950 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOakland Firefighters Random Acts: $20,877 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetST VINCENTS DAY HOME: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetParamount Theatre of the Arts Inc: $11,682 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Martin C Kauffman One Hundred Club of Alameda County: $11,600 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEUNIECE LAW THE LEGACY CONTINUES: $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGuardian Training: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Oaklandalameda Countyemeryville Firefighters Charity Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oaklandalameda Countyemeryville Firefighters Charity Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.

    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 21 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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