· Public charity
White Pony Express
Access to good food for all.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k37 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Team Jesus | $1,489,711 |
| JULY TOTAL | $647,279 |
| My Angels | $436,757 |
| Living Hope Community Church | $411,181 |
| Brothers | $310,561 |
| Mt Diablo School District | $268,023 |
| Individual grant recipient | $226,305 |
| Good Shepherd | $206,863 |
| RR Ministries | $200,864 |
| Oakley Senior Center | $190,053 |
| All-in-One | $189,459 |
| Loaves & Fishes Pittsburg | $176,174 |
| Hope House | $164,471 |
| Individual grant recipient | $161,917 |
| VCRC | $159,643 |
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 (FY20–21, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
How this is measured
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 +74% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 76 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GRGREATER RICHMOND INTERFAITH PROGRAM GRIP8× · 2017–2024 · $901k · revenue +63%
- LALoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa8× · 2017–2024 · $633k · revenue +130%
- TCTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- LPLa Palabra de Diosone grant, 2020 · $983k
- MDMT DIABLO EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $51k · revenue -21%
- ISIslamic Society of West Controne grant, 2020 · $46k
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.
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.
BACS' mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing "whatever it takes." BACS helps people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or behavioural health challenges while balancing other complications like…
Housing counseling services to low and moderate income residents of the Bay Area. Services include placement, discrimination investigations, tenant and landlord dispute resolution, reverse mortgage counseling, and rental assistance…
City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…
Interim, inc.'s mission is to provide services and affordable housing to supporting members of our community with mental illness in building productive and satisfying lives.
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
Alpha Project for the Homeless (Alpha Project) was organized in February 1987 under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The mission of Alpha Project is to empower individuals, families, and…
Mission action nurtures individual wellness and cultivates collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society.
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 122 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
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.
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: Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · John Muir Health · Richmond Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Sutter Bay Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization White Pony Express funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from White Pony Express. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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