· Private foundation
The Zellerbach Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $235k
- $10k–50k106 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k69 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IIBA | $170,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER | $150,000 |
| ILD | $100,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC | $100,000 |
| CIPC | $100,000 |
| YOUTH LAW CENTER | $100,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER | $100,000 |
| LIFE LEARNING ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| INTERFAITH MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN INTEGRITY | $85,000 |
| CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA INC | $80,000 |
| SAFE & SOUND | $75,000 |
| RYSE INC | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE | $75,000 |
| CCIJ | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
202 repeat relationships: 124 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IIIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA4× · 2020–2023 · $695k · revenue +45%
Independent Arts & Media5× · 2020–2024 · $662k · revenue +40%- YLYOUTH LAW CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $510k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- RUREGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CA AT BERKELEYone grant, 2020 · $190k
- TUTRUSTEE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND DBA CATHOLIC CHARITIES EAST BAone grant, 2021 · $80k
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.
California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
BAYCAT addresses racial, gender and economic inequity by creating powerful, authentic media while diversifying the creative industry. Through the education and employment of low-income youth, young people of color, and young women in the…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
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,…
Oakland Ballet Company's mission is to inspire the community by keeping the tradition of ballet exciting, vibrant and accessible.
How this is measured
308 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 308 of the 367 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Academy ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds W HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT IMPACT ↗
- Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
- Who funds RYSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM ↗
- Who funds California Youth Connection ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln ↗
- Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
- Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Center for Youth Law ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY FAMILY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds Northern California Grantmakers ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · Gerbode Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zellerbach Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zellerbach Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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