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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 FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$873kHuman Services$697kFood & Nutrition$670kEmployment$555kInternational$550kHealth$348kHousing & Shelter$305kPublic Benefit$297kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$7,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANIFESTWORKS$250,000
ALMA BACKYARD FARMS$250,000
ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE$125,000
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$125,000
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
HEALTHY HEARTS INSTITUTE$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY$50,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$36,000
JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$36,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA$25,000
HAND IN HAND$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$25,000
BONAFIDE$25,000
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY$25,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $832k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $72k → 8%AL OTRO LADO: $10k → 11%THE BLUE CARD: $15k → 17%THE PRUNO FUND: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%AL OTRO LADO: $10k → 11%BLUE CARD INC: $15k → 17%THE PRUNO FUND: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%BLUE CARD INC: $15k → 17%THE PRUNO FUND: $10k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $5k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $250k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $75k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $75k → 14%MANIFESTWORKS: $75k → 14%A HOME WITHIN: $10k → 10%A HOME WITHIN: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 51 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
58

Total granted

$4.0M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

80%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AB
    ALMA BACKYARD FARM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $540k · revenue +12%
  • M
    MANIFESTWORKS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +120%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $430k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • JI
    JOHN IRWIN HOUSE PROJECT JUMPSTART
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAG ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • PR
    PROJECT REBOUND AT CSU FULLERTON
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
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
3
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

—
4
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
8
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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12
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Site-Specicific Dances Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…International Development &…Experimental Arts ProductionAffordable Housing ProvidersEnvironmental Conservation …Asian Cultural Heritage Org…Policy Advocacy Organizatio…K-12 Schools and Educationa…Jewish Charitable Support O…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%46%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/90
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,888

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.

04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 135 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
52/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHN IRWIN HOUSE PROJECT JUMPSTART — $300,000 · OtherJOHN IRWIN HOUSE PROJECT JUMPSTARTPROJECT REBOUND — $225,000 · OtherPROJECT REBOUNDJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $147,000 · OtherJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATIONAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAG ACTION FUND — $125,000 · Other1951 COFFEE — $115,000 · OtherPROJECT REBOUND AT CSU FULLERTON — $100,000 · OtherHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $162,000 · OtherHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCOJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $87,200 · Other+75 more — $1,227,500 · Other+75 moreALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC — $430,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE …NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $180,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR H…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA …LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CONSERVA…San Francisco Architectural Heritage — $45,000 · Arts & Culture20 Summers Inc — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $132,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMANIFESTWORKS — $475,000 · Human ServicesMANIFESTWORKSJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $147,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SE…The Pruno Fund Inc — $110,000 · Human ServicesThe Pruno Fund I…THE BLUE CARD INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE BLUE CARD IN…+3 more — $55,000 · Human Services+3 moreALMA BACKYARD FARM — $540,000 · Food & NutritionALMA BACKYA…CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $38,000 · Food & NutritionCHRONICLE S…+2 more — $25,000 · Food & NutritionHealthy Hearts Institute — $163,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthUJIMA — $30,000 · HealthNational AIDS Memorial Inc — $25,000 · HealthKINGDOM CAUSES BELLFLOWER — $175,000 · EducationTHE BASIC FUND — $24,000 · EducationPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 · Education826 National Inc — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $15,000 · EducationPlanting Justice — $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST — $25,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc — $15,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $15,000 · EnvironmentWild Seed Project — $10,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Environment+4 more — $20,000 · Environment
Other$2,488,700Arts & Culture$1,047,500Human Services$832,000Food & Nutrition$603,000Health$318,000Education$249,000Environment$195,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM — $540,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMANIFESTWORKS — $475,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC — $430,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKINGDOM CAUSES BELLFLOWER — $175,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHealthy Hearts Institute — $163,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $162,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $147,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $147,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pruno Fund Inc — $110,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPlanting Justice — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $87,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJumpstart Labs Inc DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS — $75,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetREFOUNDRY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Architectural Heritage — $45,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBONAFIDE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND — $38,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget20 Summers Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUJIMA — $30,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST — $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNational AIDS Memorial Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND — $24,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA HOME WITHIN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUPRSEED Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAL OTRO LADO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWild Seed Project — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Historical Society — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Clif Family FoundationCalifornia Community …ImpactassetsincThe Keith Campbell Fo…The Andrew W Mellon F…Ralph & Marsha Guggen…The Henry Mayo Newhal…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA34.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Yerba Buena 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 135 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines