· Public charity
United Way of the Bay Area
Uwba mobilizes the bay area to dismantle the root causes of poverty and build equitable pathways to prosperity.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHMOND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $745,000 |
| EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORP | $362,895 |
| CHILDREN'S NETWORK OF SOLANO COUNTY | $295,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN | $196,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO | $180,000 |
| UNITED WAY WINE COUNTRY | $152,500 |
| COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN | $138,286 |
| ON THE MOVE | $137,963 |
| FREMONT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER CORPORATION | $130,000 |
| INTERFACE CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES | $109,082 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR | $100,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA AFL-CIO CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $92,811 |
| CHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $91,897 |
| CHABOT-LAS POSITAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $90,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $18.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
303 repeat relationships: 101 still active in FY2025, 202 since wound down; 21 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EBEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +94%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +96%
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +119%
Funded once
- DCDALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $160k · revenue +199%
- RCREDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $131k
- COCHURCH OF THE NATIVITYone grant, 2019 · $125k
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.
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,…
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.
The Eviction Defense Collaborative strives to prevent homelessness, preserveaffordable housing, and protect the diversity of San Francisco. We work toward thesegoals by providing emergency rental assistance and by helping low-income…
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in east palo alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
How this is measured
509 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. 509 of the 611 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.
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- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Interface Children Family Services ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Sunlight Giving · Tipping Point Community · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Crankstart Foundation · McNabb Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of the Bay Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Bay Area. Bigger dots raise more.
- Simplifyct Inc: 66% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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