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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $20,996 |
| WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS | $5,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA | $1,035 |
| national immigration law center | $1,000 |
| THE PARENTS CIRCLE FAMILIES FORUM | $1,000 |
| ACTBLUE CHARITIES | $430 |
| FREE ROOT OPERATION | $263 |
| VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $258 |
| PARKING REFORM NETWORK | $250 |
| NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NET | $250 |
| THE WHITE LINE | $106 |
| CLIMATE RIDE | $104 |
| GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $52 |
| M2H | $50 |
| GLOBAL PURPOSE GROUP | $50 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RSRising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER5× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +89%
- BPBerkeley Public Schools Fund2× · 2020–2021 · $615 · revenue +11%
- FUFIREFIGHTERS UNITED FOR SAFETY ETHICS AND ECOLOGY2× · 2022–2024 · $413 · revenue +155%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE MONTEREY BAYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION MONTEREYone grant, 2024 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
To plan, promote and sustain a connected 550-mile hiking, cycling and equestrian trail on the ridge lines above the San Francisco Bay - linking people, parks and open spaces for today and future generations.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
To ensure the right of the public to access and respectfully enjoy the California Coast. To work for the completion of the California Coastal Trail and to educate the public about the coast and ocean resources.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
Research, develop and promote waste reduction policies and programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Native American Rights Fund 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 71 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS ↗
- Who funds Transformca dba Transform ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
- Who funds CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds PARKING REFORM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE FREE ROOT OPERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dorothy Day House ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS UNITED FOR SAFETY ETHICS AND ECOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE LINE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
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.
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
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 Together We Can Make It Happen Foundatio 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.
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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