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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% 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
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $236k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
East Bay Asian Local Dev$171,476
First Community Housing$64,343
Richmond Community Foundation$30,065
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SJSU Research Foundation$18,003
Shared-Use Mobility Center$14,725
San Jose Downtown Association$10,000
Social Good Fund$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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STOCKTON: $15k → 12%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$489k · 6 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$489k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+56%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23’24
Community ImprovementSocial ScienceEducationHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EB
    EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $257k · revenue +70%
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • SM
    SHARED-USE MOBILITY CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SS
    SPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +56%
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
San Francisco Transit Riders

San Francisco Transit Riders is the city's rider-based grassroots advocate forworld-class transit. Together with our members we work for an excellent,affordable, and growing public transit system because it is essential to thecharacter and…

Community Improvement
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Sv Home

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter
4
Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley

Housing rehabilitation and repairs

Education
5
Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund

Seamless Bay Area is primarily an advocate for legislative change at the local and state levels in California, but also conducts educational, research, and engagement activities.

Public Benefit
6
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
7
Storefront for Community Design

SFCD empowers community-driven design and equitable growth in Richmond.

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8
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
9
Foundation for Sustainable Development

The Foundation for Sustainable Development FSD or the Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, whose mission is to achieve community-driven goals through asset-based development and international exchange in…

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10
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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11
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

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12
Southern California Grantmakers

Southern california grantmakers (scg) is the regional association for philanthropists and grantmakers working to make a difference in our communities and around the world. we are a leadership hub for our members to connect with each other,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association; the most unlike its peers is San Jose Downtown Association. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $256,805 · Community ImprovementEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONFIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING: $82,163 · OtherFIRST COMMUNITY HOUSINGIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN JOSE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherSAN JOSE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATIONSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AN…Foundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain: $15,000 · OtherFoundation for Regional Transit DBA Frien…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $32,813 · EducationSOCIAL GO…SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,003 · EducationSAN JOSE …Richmond Community Foundation: $38,743 · PhilanthropySHARED-USE MOBILITY CENTER: $25,264 · Social ScienceCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $15,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$256,805Other$227,163Education$50,816Philanthropy$38,743Social Science$25,264Human Services$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetRichmond Community Foundation: $38,743 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $32,813 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Transformca dba Transform funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Transformca dba Transform. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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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