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Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

$340k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$171,476
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Transformca dba Transform funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’23
Community ImprovementSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$299k17%
FY20236$214k100%
FY20191$5k0%
FY20181$15k100%
FY20171$10kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$287kHousing & Shelter$82kPhilanthropy$72kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$20kScience & Tech$18kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation$256,80521%
First Community Housing$82,16320%
San Jose Downtown Association$30,00021%
Shared-Use Mobility Center$25,26421%
Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association$20,00010%
San Jose State University Research Foundation$18,00310%
Foundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain$15,000211%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Stockton$15,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Transformca dba Transform supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast Bay Asian Local Development Corporation: $256,805 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFirst Community Housing: $82,163 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Jose Downtown Association: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetShared-Use Mobility Center: $25,264 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSpur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jose State University Research Foundation: $18,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Stockton: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 8.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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About Transformca dba Transform

How much does Transformca dba Transform give?
Transformca dba Transform reported 8 grants totaling $339,534 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Transformca dba Transform fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (47%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Transformca dba Transform's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation ($257k), First Community Housing ($82k), San Jose Downtown Association ($30k).
Does Transformca dba Transform fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Transformca dba Transform?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Transformca dba Transform based?
Transformca dba Transform 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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