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Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$5.1MFood & Nutrition$3.0MHealth$2.9MCommunity Improvement$995kPhilanthropy$725kCrime & Legal$560kEducation$450kArts & Culture$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Bank CCSol$200,000
Lighthouse Blind$200,000
VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY$190,000
Individual grant recipient$175,000
KOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY$162,688
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation$100,000
LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS$100,000
FAMILY BRIDGES$75,000
Pittsburg SrHC Res Com$65,000
Spectrum Community Services$56,885
Individual grant recipient$50,000
HONOR FLIGHT BAY AREA FOUNDATION$50,000
EMBRACE FOUNDATION$25,736
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 (FY17–23, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $400k → 10%Lighthouse for Blind & Visually Impaired: $200k → 10%LIFE ELDERCARE: $270k → 10%LIFE ELDERCARE: $100k → 10%LIFE ELDER CARE: $100k → 10%LIFE ELDERCARE: $68k → 10%DAYBREAK ADULT CARE CENTERS: $63k → 10%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $75k → 10%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $50k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE INC: $245k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE INC: $150k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE INC: $71k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE INC: $50k → 10%J-SEL: $150k → 10%J-SEI: $150k → 10%J-SEI: $125k → 10%J-SEL: $120k → 10%J-SEI INC: $100k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT & CARE CENTER: $120k → 10%SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $308k → 10%SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $83k → 10%MERCY RETIREMENT & CARE CENTER: $50k → 10%SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $77k → 10%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 16% of Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay’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. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbaylessmore 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 26 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$13M
$928k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+45%

Still filing today

85%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $672k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • KOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $995k · revenue +93%
  • LF
    LAO FAMILY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $794k · revenue +194%
  • EF
    EMBRACE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $725k · revenue +749% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • C
    CCHRC
    one grant, 2023 · $272k
  • LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $257k · revenue +45%
  • H
    HUMANGOOD
    one grant, 2022 · $125k

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
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

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2
Asian Health Services

Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…

Health
3
Alzheimers Services of the East Bay

The mission of Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay is to provide services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia; provide support for their caregivers; and educate and inform the general community about issues…

Health
4
Curry Senior Center

To provide services to seniors that promote independent living while maintaining their dignity and self-esteem.

Human Services
5
Asian Community Center of Sacramento Valley Inc Dba Acc Senior Services

The asian community center of sacramento valley's mission is to promote the general welfare and enhance the quality of life for our community by identifying, developing, and providing culturally sensitive health and social services for…

Health
6
Self-Help for the Elderly

Self-help for the elderly strives to promote the independence, well-being, and dignity for older adults through culturally aligned services and programs in the san francisco bay area.

Human Services
7
Wise and Healthy Aging

The organization is a multi-service, 501c(3) not-for-profit, social services organization serving seniors throughout los angeles and san bernardio counties, with emphasis on low-income and/or underserved individuals. the organization…

Health
8
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
9
Health Projects Center

Health Projects Center supports people as they age to live safely at home by delivering high quality services and programs in the Monterey Bay Region.

Crime & Legal
10
Senior Access

Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.

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11
San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society
Health
12
Kawabe Memorial House

To provide quality, secure affordable housing and culturally sensitive programs and services

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spectrum Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Embrace Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr10%36%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
15%
11,604/77,680

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

30 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. 30 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAY — $1,390,000 · OtherVIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF EAST BAYKOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $995,470 · OtherKOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAYLAO FAMILY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $794,100 · OtherLAO FAMILY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $600,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKFAMILY BRIDGES INC — $460,000 · OtherFAMILY BRIDGES INCST MARY'S CENTER — $433,350 · OtherST MARY'S CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $350,000 · OtherUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County — $273,535 · OtherCCHRC — $272,000 · OtherAPI Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center — $300,000 · Other+13 more — $1,427,189 · Other+13 moreJ-SEI INC — $645,000 · Human ServicesJ-SEI INCLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $600,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND…LIFE ELDERCARE INC — $537,636 · Human ServicesLIFE ELDERCARE INCHOPE HOSPICE INC — $515,600 · Human ServicesHOPE HOSPICE INCSPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES — $467,802 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVI…MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER — $170,000 · Human ServicesMERCY RETIREMENT AND CAR…Ashby Village Inc — $125,000 · Human Services+1 more — $62,500 · Human ServicesCONNECTED HORSE — $725,000 · HealthCONNECTED H…LIONS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $396,489 · HealthLIONS CENTE…LA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC — $257,000 · HealthLA CLINICA …EMBRACE MENTAL HEALTH — $102,068 · HealthEMBRACE MEN…OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $675,000 · Food & NutritionSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $120,000 · Food & NutritionEMBRACE FOUNDATION — $725,192 · PhilanthropyLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS — $560,000 · Crime & LegalACADEMY OF CHINESE CULTURE AND HEALTH SCIENCES — $450,000 · Education
Other$7,295,644Human Services$3,123,538Health$1,480,557Food & Nutrition$795,000Philanthropy$725,192Crime & Legal$560,000Education$450,000

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 budgetKOREAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY — $995,470 over 4y, 18% of budgetLAO FAMILY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $794,100 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetEMBRACE FOUNDATION — $725,192 over 5y, 43% of budgetCONNECTED HORSE — $725,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $675,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetJ-SEI INC — $645,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $600,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $600,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS — $560,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE INC — $515,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES — $467,802 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFAMILY BRIDGES INC — $460,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetACADEMY OF CHINESE CULTURE AND HEALTH SCIENCES — $450,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER — $433,350 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetLIONS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $396,489 over 4y, 33% of budgetAPI Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center — $300,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetUnited Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County — $273,535 over 2y, 53% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC — $257,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR SUPPORT PROGRAM OF THE TRI-VALLEY — $241,304 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER — $170,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT BAY AREA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetAshby Village Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $120,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEMBRACE MENTAL HEALTH — $102,068 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDayBreak Adult Care Centers — $62,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $56,885 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Retirement Center of Northern California — $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMANCA — $15,000 over 1y, 22% 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…East Bay Foundation o…Alameda County Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…Asian Pacific FundFremont Bank Foundati…Berkeley Pilgrimage F…Scan Health PlanSan Jose Mercury News…Sutter Bay Hospitals
East Bay Community FoundationCA33.1× affinity15 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 · East Bay Foundation on Aging · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Fremont Bank Foundation · Berkeley Pilgrimage Foundation % Satellite · Scan Health Plan · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Sutter Bay Hospitals

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 Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay?

    Find your warmest path to Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbay 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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