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Richmond Community Foundation

The Richmond Community Foundation mobilizes the power of connection to build healthy,thriving communities.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$311k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$3.7MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEmployment$1.1MEducation$918kRecreation & Sports$673kHealth$627kCrime & Legal$418kHuman Services$303kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $531,152 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,198,820 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,667,668 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–50k6 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
  • $250k+1 grant · $311k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brighter Beginnings$310,965
Bay Area Legal Aid$56,986
CA Alliance for Retired Americans$37,728
Help a Life Foundation$35,000
Dream Catchers Empowerment Network$34,589
Catholic Charities of the East Bay$30,009
Rebuilding Together$13,875
Loave and Fishes of Contra Costa$12,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASPIRANET MONUMENT FIRST 5 CENTER: $10k → 7%MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%TRAINING INST FOR LEADERSHIP: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER: $1k → 10%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $7k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $1k → 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $37k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $35k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $25k → 9%ABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%ABEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $35k → 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Richmond Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Richmond Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
65

Total granted

$8.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BB
    BRIGHTER BEGINNINGS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +76%
  • CR
    COBIZ RICHMOND INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $829k · revenue +25% · 93% of their budget
  • OJ
    OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $740k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Financial Resources
    one grant, 2021 · $114k · revenue -27%
  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2020 · $89k · revenue -38%
  • CC
    CONTRA COSTA CNTY FLOOD CONTROL & WATER
    one grant, 2023 · $82k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
5
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
6
Westside Community Mental Health Center Westside Community Services Inc

The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.

Health
7
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education
10
Bay Area Community Services Inc

BACS' mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing "whatever it takes." BACS helps people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or behavioural health challenges while balancing other complications like…

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11
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
12
Urban Habitat Program

Urban Habitat democratizes power and advances equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color. We confront structural inequities impacting historically disenfranchised communities. Through…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rubicon Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Help a Life Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/75
the rest of the field
13%
2,843/22,631

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 98 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
42/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RICHMOND MAIN ST INITIATIVE — $858,291 · OtherRICHMOND MAIN ST INITIATIVECATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND — $515,996 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLANDCOMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP OF NORTH RICHMOND — $503,094 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP OF NORTH RIC…BAY AREA LEGAL AID — $415,752 · OtherBAY AREA LEGAL AIDHELP A LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $218,878 · OtherHELP A LIFE FOUNDATION INC+66 more — $1,516,214 · Other+66 moreBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS — $1,770,895 · HealthBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS+5 more — $163,000 · Health+5 moreOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC — $739,770 · EmploymentOPPORTUNITY …DREAMCATCHERS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK — $197,462 · EmploymentDREAMCATCHER…MONUMENT IMPACT — $83,406 · EmploymentMONUMENT IMP…COBIZ RICHMOND INC — $829,000 · Community ImprovementCOBIZ RICHM…Rotary Club of Richmond Inc — $123,132 · Community ImprovementRotary Club…+1 more — $11,923 · Community ImprovementPogo Park — $672,414 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsConstruction Resource Center — $603,868 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $20,875 · Housing & ShelterA B L E COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATINA CENTER — $60,000 · Human ServicesVillage Community Resource Center — $38,800 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS — $37,728 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Human ServicesASPIRANET — $10,000 · Human ServicesTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $9,000 · Human Services
Other$4,028,225Health$1,933,895Employment$1,020,638Community Improvement$964,055Recreation & Sports$673,414Housing & Shelter$624,743Human Services$285,528

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIGHTER BEGINNINGS — $1,770,895 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetCOBIZ RICHMOND INC — $829,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC — $739,770 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetPogo Park — $672,414 over 4y, 21% of budgetConstruction Resource Center — $603,868 over 2y, 65% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND — $515,996 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP OF NORTH RICHMOND — $503,094 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBAY AREA LEGAL AID — $415,752 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHELP A LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $218,878 over 6y, 73% of budgetDREAMCATCHERS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK — $197,462 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetRotary Club of Richmond Inc — $123,132 over 2y, 35% of budgetCommunity Financial Resources — $113,866 over 1y, 11% of budgetRICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC — $107,283 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetACCE Institute — $105,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetA B L E COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $88,554 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT — $83,406 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $77,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE — $64,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LATINA CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetROTACARE BAY AREA INC — $60,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRIDE CENTER — $41,800 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $40,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Community Resource Center — $38,800 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA LAND TRUST — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHIJAS DEL CAMPO — $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetALIADOS HEALTH NETWORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRichmond Police Activities League — $22,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa — $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT — $19,900 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula — $13,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center — $11,923 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASPIRANET — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUrban Tilth — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Girls Club — $9,486 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPeople Who Care Children's Association — $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCONTRA COSTA CRISIS CENTER — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUBICON PROGRAMS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetContra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Dean and Margaret Les…Justice Justice Found…Contra Costa Regional…United Way of the Bay…The California Endowm…Sunlight GivingSutter Bay HospitalsSan Jose Mercury News…Tipping Point Communi…
East Bay Community FoundationCA66.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation · Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The California Endowment · Sunlight Giving · Sutter Bay Hospitals · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Tipping Point Community

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 Richmond Community Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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