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Urban Habitat Program

Urban Habitat democratizes power and advances equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color.

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$189k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$826kHousing & Shelter$466kCivil Rights$266kCommunity Improvement$194kEmployment$86kHuman Services$73kEnvironment$20kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $268,811 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $337,331 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $68,520 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $239k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Right To The City Alliance$188,811
Bay Area Land Trust$50,000
Unity Council$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FilipinoAdvocates for Justice: $65k → 10%Sacred Heart Community Srvcs: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Urban Habitat Program’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 100% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Urban Habitat Programlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$883k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

$1.1M
$694k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • FI
    Faith In Action Bay Area
    4× · 2019–2022 · $460k · revenue +63%
  • YL
    Youth Leadership Institute
    3× · 2019–2021 · $202k · revenue +63%
  • BA
    Bay Area Community Land Trust
    2× · 2023–2024 · $87k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +136%
  • SB
    SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -39%
  • FA
    FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +81%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Urban Habitat Program

Urban Habitat democratizes power and advances equitable policies to create a just and connected Bay Area for low-income communities of color. We confront structural inequities impacting historically disenfranchised communities. Through…

Community Improvement
3
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
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.

—
5
Unitedly

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.

Human Services
6
Bay Area Organizing Committee

A broad based network of local institutions - congregations, synagogues, non-profits and civic associations - that serve as a foundation for public relationships, leadership development and action around issues that affect our communities.

Unclassified
7
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

Ebase advances economic, racial and social justice by building a just economy in the east bay on good jobs and healthy communities. we address the root causes of economic injustice by developing strategic alliances amount community, faith…

Public Benefit
8
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
9
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

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.…

Education
10
Northern California Land Trust

NCLT is dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing for people with low to moderate incomes.

—
11
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
12
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Public Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Community Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr12%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
12%
4,343/37,033

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.

05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Faith In Action Bay Area — $460,000 · OtherFaith In Action Bay AreaYouth Leadership Institute — $202,000 · OtherYouth Leadership InstituteCOR-CONGREGATIONS ORGANIZING FOR RENEWAL — $55,000 · OtherCOR-CONGREGATIONS ORGANIZING FOR RENEWAL+14 more — $215,050 · Other+14 moreRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $188,811 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY A…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $150,392 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERE…Bay Area Community Land Trust — $86,666 · Housing & ShelterBay Area Community…SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH BAY COMMUNIT…Oakland Community Land Trust — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterOakland Community …Causa Justa Just Cause — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterCausa Justa Just C…PRESERVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING LONGTERM — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPRESERVING AFFORDA…EAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST BAY HOUSING O…SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $66,666 · Community ImprovementSPANISH SPE…Genesis Interfaith Community Organizing — $35,000 · Community ImprovementGenesis Int…North Bay Organizing Project — $29,960 · Community ImprovementNorth Bay O…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE …San Francisco Transit Riders — $22,000 · Community ImprovementSan Francis…SOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSOMOS MAYFA…MONUMENT IMPACT — $86,000 · EmploymentFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE — $65,000 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $8,333 · Human ServicesAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $60,000 · Environment
Other$932,050Civil Rights$339,203Housing & Shelter$321,666Community Improvement$198,626Employment$86,000Human Services$73,333Environment$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFaith In Action Bay Area — $460,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute — $202,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $188,811 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $150,392 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBay Area Community Land Trust — $86,666 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT — $86,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTH BAY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $80,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $66,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE — $65,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOakland Community Land Trust — $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOR-CONGREGATIONS ORGANIZING FOR RENEWAL — $55,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGenesis Interfaith Community Organizing — $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPRESERVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING LONGTERM — $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project — $29,960 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCouncil of Community Housing Organizations — $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Transit Riders — $22,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetEAST BAY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUnamesa Association — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACCE Institute — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth United for Community Action — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLatinos United for a New America — $7,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…United Way of the Bay…Amalgamated Charitabl…The California Wellne…The Sobrato Family Fo…The James Irvine Foun…The Grove FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Common Counsel Founda…
The San Francisco FoundationCA45.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Grove Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Common Counsel 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 Urban Habitat Program 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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