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Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio

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.

$31k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
65%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$258
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,996
Organizations funded a year
2 to 30
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$105k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$31k67%
FY202420$14k65%
FY202330$6k87%
FY20227$2k71%
FY202110$9k80%
FY20203$2k67%
FY20185$3k60%
FY20172$1kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$29kEmployment$8kYouth Development$7kHuman Services$6kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$2kCivil Rights$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER: $7,728 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Spirit Artworks: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransformca dba Transform: $876 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Housing Organizations: $825 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoro Northern California Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParking Reform Network: $559 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Free Root Operation Inc: $519 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDorothy Day House: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology: $413 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBerkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane: $413 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $412 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiddle East Children's Alliance: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Ride Inc: $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Public Library Foundation: $155 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Horse Rescue: $123 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe White Line: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKaram Foundation: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Walks: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOnondaga Earth Corps Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgrarian Land Trust: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolano Land Trust: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Trails: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Daytime Drop-In Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Trail Corporation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Allegheny Passage Conservancy: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMearth: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Purpose Group: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonyough Trail Council: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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 FoundationCA21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Franklin Weinberg Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Dean Witter Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · The California Wellness 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.

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How do I get to Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio?

Find your warmest path to Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio 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.

About Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio

How much does Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio give?
Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio reported 15 grants totaling $30,844 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Employment (12%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER ($8k), Waterside Workshops ($5k), Pro Publica Inc ($1k).
Does Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, Franklin Weinberg Fund, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio based?
Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio is based in CA.

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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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