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West Davis & Bergard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $404k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH ALIVE | $290,273 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| PRESCOTT CIRCUS THEATRE | $50,000 |
| CRISTO REY DE LA SALLE | $40,000 |
| GRATEFUL GATHERINGS | $25,000 |
| OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER | $25,000 |
| OPERATION DIGNITY | $25,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| EAST BAY SPCA | $20,000 |
| A SAFE PLACE | $20,000 |
| SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES | $20,000 |
| REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OAKLAND ELIZABETH HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SIDE BY SIDE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $412k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
59 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- YAYOUTH ALIVE8× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +126%
- PCPrescott Circus Theatre6× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +59%
- ODOPERATION DIGNITY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $101k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BABAY AREA ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED SAILORSone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -54%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $20k
- NUNOVA UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -45%
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.
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.
For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.
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,…
HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…
Nonprofit human services organization active in the City of Alameda and the East Bay whose mission is to improve the emotional, psychological, and physical health of children, youth, and their families.
The mission of Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay is to provide services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia; provide support for their caregivers; and educate and inform the general community about issues…
East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) is a member-driven organization working to create, preserve, and protect affordable housing opportunities for low-income communities by advocating, organizing, educating, and building coalitions. EBHO…
The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.
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…
FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harbor House Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oral Lee Brown Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 85 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 YOUTH ALIVE ↗
- Who funds Prescott Circus Theatre ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED SAILORS ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds Native American Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Oakland Elizabeth House ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Side By Side ↗
- Who funds GRATEFUL GATHERINGS ↗
- Who funds Dorothy Day House ↗
- Who funds BEYOND EMANCIPATION ↗
- Who funds STAGEBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS RECOVERY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Loved Twice ↗
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: Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Barrios Trust · Sunlight Giving · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Banks Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc
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 Davis & Bergard Foundation 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.
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