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The Depolo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Bay Area Urban Network | $60,000 |
| Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church | $26,000 |
| Mount Hermon Association | $24,000 |
| FACE | $14,000 |
| Character Choice | $8,000 |
| WellSpring | $8,000 |
| Loaves and Fishes | $8,000 |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa County | $7,000 |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind | $6,000 |
| Bay Area Rescue Mission | $5,000 |
| Young Life Diablo Valley | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Oakland | $5,000 |
| Heartstrings Counseling | $5,000 |
| East Bay Times Share the Spirit | $5,000 |
| City Team | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $593k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTHE BAY AREA URBAN NETWORK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $520k · revenue +17%
- WWELLSPRING6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +67%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- BBAUNone grant, 2020 · $50k
- LCLeadership Connectionone grant, 2020 · $4k
- DPDECISION POINT MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The burbank community ymca (burbank y) is committed to strengthening the foundation of our community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we work within our community to ensure that everyone, regardless of…
Provide the highest quality of christian science nursing care in keeping with the church manual provision for "christian science nurse". arden wood also offers an extensive cs nurses' training program, and both independent and sheltered…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
Wellspring provides a discipleship model for individuals and churches to engage as a part of their overall spiritual development. this is done through retreat and small group experiences and through equipping churches and organizations to…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Harbor House is a Christian community development organization that provides a safe place for opportunities, resources, and relationships to be shared so that all families in Oakland can flourish. Since 1972, Harbor House has faithfully…
Delivering compassionate support and exceptional care in the home for individuals and communities, guiding them with choice and dignity to navigate significant care decisions.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE BAY AREA URBAN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds HEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN RISING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOMENSING ATTN PRESIDENT ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DECISION POINT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Orinda Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SATURATE ↗
- Who funds THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TODAYS YOUTH MATTER ↗
- Who funds Resource Exchange International Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Severson Family Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 The Depolo 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.
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.
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