· Public charity
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
Grant making organization supporting students and education initiatives of West Contra Costa USD.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $328,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $407,986 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,863 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $250k+1 grant · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Contra Costa USD | $300,873 |
| Alexander Fleming | $14,250 |
| STUDENTS RISING ABOVE | $7,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $8k) 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.
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.
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 West Contra Costa Public Education Fund’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, 99% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT5× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M
- CFCommunity Financial Resources4× · 2020–2023 · $765k · revenue +71% · 50% of their budget
- PIPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION2× · 2021–2022 · $344k · revenue -16%
Funded once
- RLRICHMOND LANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +83% · 29% of their budget
- TWTHE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $64k · revenue -14%
- BFBEAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $46k · revenue +137%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide affordable housing to low-income households in the greater san francisco bay area.
Rivet School's mission is to build and scale a new model of higher education that reliably enables traditionally underserved students to earn an affordable bachelor's degree in as little as two years, leading to a great first job and…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Resources for community development creates and preserves affordable housing for people with the fewest options, to build community and enrich lives.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
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 neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
AEF serves as a critical bridge toward equitable and inclusive educational outcomes for Alameda TK-12 public school students.
Renaissance's mission is to transform lives and communities through entrepreneurship.
Recap empowers people and communities challenged by poverty, racism, and social injustice by collaborating with public and private partners to provide high quality health and human services, education, advocacy, and hope. our mission is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Community Financial Resources ↗
- Who funds Richmond Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND LAND ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP OF NORTH RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay ↗
- Who funds Richmond Art Center ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Richmond Community Foundation · Chamberlin Education Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation · Chamberlin Family Philanthropy · The Morris Stulsaft 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 West Contra Costa Public Education Fund 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.
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.