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Urban Family Foundation at a glance

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Urban Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$187kHealth$21kInternational$21kHuman Services$5kPublic Benefit$5kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$850
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,124
Median grant
4
States reached
$423k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$5,000
BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT GROUP$5,000
AFRICAN MOTHERS HEALTH INITIATIVE$3,124
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$3,000
ST MARY'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND$3,000
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Urban Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Urban Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$226k · 7 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$226k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • AM
    AFRICAN MOTHERS HEALTH INITIATIVE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +234%
  • BH
    Berkeley High School Development Group
    4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +87%
  • ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SF BIRTH CENTER (SOCIAL GOOD FUND)
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FP
    FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +22%
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
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.

Philanthropy
2
University Ywca Berkeley California

Organizations mission or most significant activities ywca berkeley/oakland is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, developing leaders and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all through: financial literacy,…

Human Services
3
Girls in Stem
Human Services
4
Africa Agility

Our mission is to equip underserved youthespecially women and girls with future-ready skills in technology Agile methodologies and entrepreneurship empowering them to access dignified work drive innovation and compete globally.

Education
5
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
6
Literacy Design Collaborative Inc

Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…

Education
7
Ten Strands

We strengthen the partnerships, strategies, and systems that advance environmental literacy, ensuring all California TK12 students thrive in sustainable, resilient schools and engage in meaningful environmental learning experiences, both…

Environment
8
Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company Inc

The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. (The Daily Californian) is an independent newspaper that trains UC Berkeley students for careers in journalism and business. The paper and its digital products are the primary source…

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9
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
10
Community Resources for Science

CRS empowers teachers and STEM professionals serving schools in historically marginalized communities to activate TK-8 students curiosity about the world, foster critical thinking, and inspire children to imagine future career pathways.…

Education
11
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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12
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 13 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERKELEY ROSE SCHOOL: $152,500 · EducationBERKELEY ROSE SCHOOLBerkeley High School Development Group: $19,000 · EducationBerkeley High School Development Group+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAFRICAN MOTHERS HEALTH INITIATIVE: $20,594 · HealthAFRICAN MOTHERS H…ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVEL…Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Inc: $8,500 · OtherBlack Yoga…ST MARY'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $6,000 · OtherST MARY'S …FRIENDS OF SF BIRTH CENTER (SOCIAL GOOD FUND): $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF…THE OCEAN CLEANUP PROJECT: $3,500 · OtherTHE OCEAN …COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · Public BenefitFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $5,000 · Human ServicesECOLOGISTICS INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentGirls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc: $850 · Recreation & Sports
Education$172,500Health$36,594Other$23,000Public Benefit$5,000Human Services$5,000Environment$1,000Recreation & Sports$850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAFRICAN MOTHERS HEALTH INITIATIVE: $20,594 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBerkeley High School Development Group: $19,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Yoga Teachers Alliance Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOLOGISTICS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc: $850 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation 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 Urban Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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