· Private foundation
The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH HOMES | $40,000 |
| PLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION & RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO | $25,000 |
| OPEN HEART KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION | $25,000 |
| MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER | $25,000 |
| WHITE PONY EXPRESS | $25,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT NETWORK | $20,000 |
| HEROIC GARDENS | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MRMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $145k · revenue +26%
- WPWHITE PONY EXPRESS5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +3%
- FBFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO5× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- OOOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern Californiaone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -26%
- AANOVAone grant, 2023 · $35k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVEone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -25%
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.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…
The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds Youth Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds La Casa de las Madres ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE ↗
- Who funds PLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds GRATEFUL GATHERINGS ↗
- Who funds Heroic Gardens ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Russian Riverkeeper ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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