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The Oakland Athletics Community Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$371k
Granted FY2022
56
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Food & Nutrition$302kHealth$208kEducation$204kYouth Development$190kCommunity Improvement$136kHuman Services$102kRecreation & Sports$85kCivil Rights$60kOther$0
02FY2022 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k31 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $290k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE TREE PLANTED INC$30,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
OAKLAND ATHLETIC LEAGUE$15,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$10,000
SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES$10,000
STUDENT PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC & ATHLETIC T$10,000
INNER EXPLORER INC$10,000
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA INC$10,000
NIROGA INSTITUTE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HEALTH CAREER CONNECTION INC$10,000
COLLEGE TRACK #2$10,000
OAKSTOP ALLIANCE$10,000
MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT$10,000
EAST BAY CHILDREN'S LAW OFFICES INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%TRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK: $3k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 10%MAKE A WISH GREATER BAY AREA: $10k → 10%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA: $190 → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $500 → 10%LOVED TWICE: $15k → 10%CAMPS IN COMMON: $1k → 10%LEND A HAND FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 10%LEND A HAND FOUNDATION INC OF NORTH CA: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
OK
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$744k · 28 repeat orgs$732k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
67

Total granted

$744k
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+33%

Still filing today

96%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $205k · revenue +39%
  • EO
    East Oakland Youth Development Center
    3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • AN
    ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • OA
    OAKLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • FO
    Friends of the Oakland Branch
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • 1B
    100 BLACK MEN OF THE BAY AREA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +89%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
3
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
4
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
5
Oakland Leaf Foundation

Oakland Leaf spurs creative and educational growth for Oakland youth by providing programs that cultivate critical thinking skills, emphasize socioemotional learning opportunities, and support authentic leadership development. They…

Education
6
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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7
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
8
Bay Area Organizing Committee

A broad based network of local institutions - congregations, synagogues, non-profits and civic associations - that serve as a foundation for public relationships, leadership development and action around issues that affect our communities.

Unclassified
9
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
10
Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center Inc

BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…

Education
11
Oakland Fund for Public Innovation

The Oakland Fund reaches across the city, engaging private partners to innovate, test and scale ideas that enhance Oakland. The Fund strives to improve the prosperity, safety and quality of life for all Oaklanders with projects that: build…

Community Improvement
12
Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council

Our mission is to empower and unite the vibrant Chinatown community through social, cultural, and economic development, improving the quality of life for all residents. We achieve this by preserving heritage, promoting inclusivity, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Cinnamongirl Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLow-Income Housing and Supp…K-12 Schools and Early Chil…Youth Arts and Performance …Diverse Nonprofit Organizat…Youth and Adult Skills Trai…Downtown Development & Tour…Pet Rescue and WelfareYouth Sports OrganizationsHealthcare Access and Resea…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr11%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr11%7%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/92
the rest of the field
12%
3,264/26,665

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 124 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
60/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $204,667 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKOAKLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER FOUNDATI — $75,000 · OtherOAKLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER FOUNDATIEast Oakland Youth Development Center — $50,000 · OtherEast Oakland Youth Development Center100 BLACK MEN OF THE BAY AREA INC — $35,000 · Other+74 more — $549,494 · Other+74 moreTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND P…HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $22,200 · EducationHIDDEN GENIUS…STUDENT PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC & ATHLETIC TRANSITION — $20,000 · EducationSTUDENT PROGR…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $16,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COAC…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONO…WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC — $12,500 · EducationWELLBEING ACT…School of Imagination Inc — $11,000 · EducationSchool of Ima…Urban Ed Academy — $10,000 · EducationUrban Ed Acad…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD F…READING PARTNERS — $6,000 · Education+5 more — $16,270 · Education+5 moreALS CURE PROJECT INC — $93,000 · HealthALS CURE PROJ…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $25,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH …HEALTH CAREER CONNECTION INC — $20,000 · HealthHEALTH CAREER…ON-SITE DENTAL CARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthON-SITE DENTA…George Mark Childrens Fund — $10,000 · HealthGeorge Mark C…NEW DAY FOR CHILDREN — $7,500 · Health+3 more — $5,550 · HealthLEND A HAND FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Human ServicesLoved Twice — $15,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA — $10,190 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION — $7,778 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUN — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesFriends of the Oakland Branch — $35,000 · Civil RightsWE THE PROTESTERS INC — $7,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $7,500 · Civil RightsACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Police-Community Activities League — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCinnamongirl Inc — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Kitchens Inc — $15,400 · Food & NutritionSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $12,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $11,500 · Food & NutritionCommunity Bridges — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$914,161Education$178,970Health$171,050Human Services$82,968Civil Rights$50,000Youth Development$47,500Food & Nutrition$41,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $204,667 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALS CURE PROJECT INC — $93,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center — $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF THE BAY AREA INC — $35,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RADIO — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation — $22,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $22,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC & ATHLETIC TRANSITION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTH CAREER CONNECTION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEND A HAND FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Kitchens Inc — $15,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLoved Twice — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $13,620 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY SPCA — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCity Slicker Farms — $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $11,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSchool of Imagination Inc — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA — $10,190 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetON-SITE DENTAL CARE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRebuilding Together East Bay Network — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetOakstop Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNIROGA INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOakland Police-Community Activities League — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMindful Life Project — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ed Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Wellne…The James Irvine Foun…Quest FoundationJewish Community Fede…T Gary and Kathleen R…Bernard E & Alba Witk…Lowell Berry Foundati…
East Bay Community FoundationCA66.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Quest Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation

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 Oakland Athletics Community Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Oakland Athletics Community Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Oakland Athletics Community Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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