· Public charity
The Excelsior German Center at the Altenheim
To provide financial assistance to low income seniors for housing and related needs to provide cultural activities by hosting german festivals, fostering associations with other ethnic associations to promote cultural exchanges, and housing other cultural and community organizations and engaging in museum, library, and language-school…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| German Amer School Assoc-GASA | $37,500 |
| Playground-The MitzvahProject | $20,000 |
| Berlin and Beyond Film Festiv | $18,000 |
| Bay Area Kinderstube | $12,862 |
| Meals on Wheels of Contra Cos | $11,000 |
| SOS Meals on Wheels | $11,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Alameda | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,600 |
| Deutscher Musikverein of SF | $6,000 |
| East Bay German Inter School | $5,901 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGerman Amer School Assoc-GASA5× · 2020–2024 · $124k
- BABERLIN AND BEYOND INC4× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue -16%
- PMPlayground-The MitzvahProject2× · 2022–2024 · $35k
Funded once
- NHNorthgate High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
3 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. 3 of the 12 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Excelsior German Center at the Altenheim funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Excelsior German Center at the Altenheim. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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