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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BAY AREA$10,000
SERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS$10,000
URBAN ED ACADEMY INC$10,000
YOUTH RADIO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NIROGA INSTITUTE$10,000
DOWNTOWN STREETS INC$10,000
MK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE$10,000
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA INC$10,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$10,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
OAKSTOP ALLIANCE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • 1B
    100 BLACK MEN OF THE BAY AREA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +89%
  • FO
    Friends of the Oakland Branch
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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
3
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
4
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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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
East Bay Asian Youth Center

Ebayc is dedicated to supporting young people to be safe, smart, and socially responsible. ebayc offers a continuum of integrated services to a diverse membership of youth and families in oakland. our goal is to support students to…

Youth Development
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
60/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Human ServicesGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $7,778 · Human ServicesHISPANIC COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUN: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $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 DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Police-Community Activities League: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RADIO: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation: $22,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $22,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENT PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC & ATHLETIC TRANSITION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHEALTH CAREER CONNECTION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEND A HAND FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCommunity Kitchens Inc: $15,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $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 budgetCity Slicker Farms: $12,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetUrban Ed Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetON-SITE DENTAL CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOakstop Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Together East Bay Network: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIROGA INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMindful Life Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOakland Police-Community Activities League: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOakland Elizabeth House: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Oakland Athletics Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oakland Athletics Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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