· Community foundation
Quakes Foundation
To provide assistance with health and fitness programs for local youth in schools and community centers, and to provide tickets for athletic events to underprivileged children.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PG&E 5000 MEALS GRANT | $110,050 |
| 50K MEALS | $50,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +61% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMISCELLANEOUS3× · 2020–2022 · $81k
- P7PLEDGE 743× · 2021–2023 · $77k
- UFUFW FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- SJSAN JOSE STATE - EAST SIDE PROMISE SHIP - AZUSENA REYESone grant, 2019 · $31k
- TTTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +41%
- ARAlum Rock Union Elementary School Districtone grant, 2020 · $21k
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.
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,…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
regions most pressing social issues. We pool resources, share information, work together, and learn from each other. NCG recognizes that the challenges facing our communities are complex, entrenched and interconnected.
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 60 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
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.
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- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER AT HOME ↗
- Who funds Working Partnerships USA ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
- Who funds COACHING CORPS ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Local Color ↗
- Who funds VEGGIELUTION ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The California Endowment · The San Francisco Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Health Trust · Agilent Technologies Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Quakes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quakes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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