California · Private foundation
Yerba Buena Fund
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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $37M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Yerba Buena Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 51 | $1.4M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.4M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Backyard Farm | $540,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Manifestworks | $475,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc | $430,000 | 3 | 16% |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kingdom Causes Bellflower | $175,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Healthy Hearts Institute | $163,000 | 4 | 80% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco | $162,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley | $147,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Free Loan Association | $147,000 | 4 | 1% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Yerba Buena Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation
How this is measured
About Yerba Buena Fund
- How much does Yerba Buena Fund give?
- Yerba Buena Fund reported 54 grants totaling $1,444,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Yerba Buena Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (15%), Human Services (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Yerba Buena Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alma Backyard Farm ($540k), Manifestworks ($475k), Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc ($430k).
- Does Yerba Buena Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yerba Buena Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yerba Buena Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Yerba Buena Fund based?
- Yerba Buena Fund is based in CA.
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