· Private foundation
Sustainable Grant Making Partners Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Realize Impact - Power to Hydrogen | $200,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| Realize Impact - Circe Biosciense | $100,500 |
| Realize Impact - TandemPV | $100,500 |
| Sparkz Inc | $100,000 |
| CarbonBridge Inc | $100,000 |
| BioQ Parma Inc | $100,000 |
| Tyfast Energy Corp | $75,000 |
| Assistive Technology Development In | $75,000 |
| Northwestern University | $62,500 |
| CASA of Contra Costa County | $60,000 |
| Campaign Legal Center Inc | $50,000 |
| Project on Government Oversight | $50,000 |
| Earthjustice | $35,000 |
| CenterforBiologicalDiversity | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $902k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +144%
EARTHJUSTICE8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +82%- OOPENSECRETS7× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
- NPNuvOx Pharma LLCone grant, 2022 · $150k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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,…
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To advance the science of jurisprudence; to establish a closer relationship of the members with the state bar association of california; to promote the administration of justice and the uniformity of legislation and judicial decisions; to…
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
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,…
Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 93 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.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds OPENSECRETS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
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: Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Lowell Berry Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Impactassetsinc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tides Foundation · The Barrios Trust · Quest Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sustainable Grant Making Partners Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sustainable Grant Making Partners Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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