California · Nonprofit
BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND
BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,648 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Berkeley Holiday Fund does
Mission
The Berkeley Holiday Funds assists individuals who are residents of Berkeley, California have a happier winter holiday. Recipients are referred to the Fund by 27 social service organizations located in the City of Berkeley, California.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Cash grants at December holidays to individuals upon recommendation of various public welfare organizations within the City of Berkeley, California. For this fiscal period, the organization distributed approximately 1,150 checks to individuals and families
$0 spentof which $135,831 as grantsEmergency cash grants paid to individuals or families upon recommendation of various welfare organizations within the city of Berkeley, California
$0 spentof which $3,092 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $80k to $102k (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $39k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 45% · 2021 91% · 2022 47% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
100% of BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND?
- BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,648 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $279,648 in grants to BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKELEY HOLIDAY FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing