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Stratum

The STRATUM foundation is a bay area focused organization that provides innovative solutions for gospel-grounded leaders and institutions in the bay area.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$142k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$6.0MHousing & Shelter$155kEducation$90kHuman Services$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $821k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $757k
$44,478
Median grant
1
States reached
$696k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUE CHURCH$142,491
CITIZENS CHURCH$87,470
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL (BRIDGE CITY CHURCH)$83,153
SANCTUARY CHURCH$70,368
NEUMA CHURCH$67,608
CHRIST CHURCH NAPA$63,539
SONOMA COLLECTIVE CHURCH$62,203
THE FATHERS HOUSE OAKLAND$60,858
HEIRS CHURCH$60,100
FRESH START CHURCH$59,260
EASTOWN CHURCH$49,865
RISEN CHURCH$47,293
TEKOA CHURCH$47,055
TRINITY FIRST (SF)$46,236
NEW CITY CHURCH$46,202
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW VALLEY CHURCH: $100k → 8%CHRIST CHURCH NAPA: $64k → 9%EASTOWN CHURCH: $134k → 9%SONOMA COLLECTIVE CHURCH: $62k → 9%GOOD SHEPARD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $99k → 10%CITIZENS CHURCH: $88k → 10%SANTA CRUZ BAPTIST: $132k → 13%GENESIS COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY OF GOD: $60k → 16%HEIRS CHURCH: $60k → 7%NEW VALLEY CHURCH: $99k → 8%EASTOWN CHURCH: $106k → 9%SONOMA COLLECTIVE CHURCH: $62k → 9%GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $71k → 10%CITIZENS CHURCH: $87k → 10%SANTA CRUZ BAPTIST CHURCH: $66k → 13%REFUGE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $62k → 7%NEW EVERGREEN CHURCH (FORMERLY NEW VALLEY): $60k → 8%CITY PARISH CHURCH: $63k → 9%FRESH START CHURCH: $59k → 10%INSPIRE CHURCH: $51k → 10%CITIZENS CHURCH: $56k → 10%REVIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $54k → 8%NEUMA CHURCH: $68k → 10%NEUMA CHURCH: $60k → 10%REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL (BRIDGE CITY CHURCH): $83k → 7%OUR CITY CENTER CHURCH: $100k → 10%OUR CITY CENTER CHURCH: $65k → 10%HUE CHURCH: $142k → 10%OUR CITY CENTER CHURCH: $53k → 10%EDEN CHURCH: $114k → 8%HUE CHURCH: $112k → 10%CURRENT SILICON VALLEY: $99k → 8%NEW CITY CHURCH: $100k → 10%HUE CHURCH: $107k → 10%RISEN CHURCH: $72k → 10%TEKOA CHURCH: $66k → 8%NEW CITY CHURCH: $99k → 10%RISEN CHURCH: $71k → 10%REALM CHURCH: $51k → 10%NEW CITY CHURCH: $89k → 10%SANCTUARY CHURCH: $70k → 10%TAPESTRY CHURCH: $101k → 10%BOLD CHURCH (FORMERLY CENTERSET): $60k → 8%TAPESTRY CHURCH OAKLAND COMMUNION: $90k → 10%STORYLINE CHURCH: $72k → 10%STORYLINE CHURCH: $65k → 10%WINGS OF LOVE MARANATHA MINISTRIES: $60k → 10%THE FATHERS HOUSE OAKLAND: $61k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 33 repeat orgs$698k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
4

Total granted

$5.7M
$303k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394k went to new ones.

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

  • HC
    HUE CHURCH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $361k
  • NC
    NEW CITY CHURCH OAKLAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $334k
  • EC
    EASTOWN CHURCH
    3× · 2022–2025 · $290k

Funded once

  • SC
    SANTA CRUZ BAPTIST
    one grant, 2022 · $132k
  • SC
    SANTA CRUZ BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $66k
  • OC
    OUR CITY CENTER CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 45 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUE CHURCH INC: $361,482 · OtherHUE CHURCH INCNEW CITY CHURCH OAKLAND: $334,131 · OtherEASTOWN CHURCH: $289,664 · OtherNEW VALLEY CHURCH: $258,278 · OtherRISEN CHURCH: $236,241 · OtherCITIZENS CHURCH OF SAN FRANCISCO: $231,406 · Other+39 more: $4,698,367 · Other+39 more
Other$6,409,569

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stratum?

Find your warmest path to Stratum 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 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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