California · Nonprofit
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,543,698 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC ($593,000,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year. EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$915M
Recipients
2,372
Contributions on record
$1.0B
Donors on record
166
Payments out are 0.91x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kelson Foundationshared funders
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio match
- League of California Community Foundationsportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 51 funders, grant income fell $135M → $10M.
38 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.9M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ebcf Properties). These are real filings, and they are not money EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
98% of EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 158 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kelson Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of California Community Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Price Family Foundation Dba Tom and Gwen Price Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Y & H Soda Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perkins Hunter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Living Cities Inc the National Community Development Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Latino Community Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Ebcf Properties · exempt
- Model Transitions Foundation · exempt
- East Bay Foundation on Aging · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (5) · corp_trust
- Pooled Income Fund (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,543,698 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC ($593,000,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year. EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $1,004,543,698 in grants to EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $593,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.
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 158funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing