California · Nonprofit
Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area
Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,647 to it, the largest being Foundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain ($93,410). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $518k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area does
Mission
Seamless Bay Area is primarily an advocate for legislative change at the local and state levels in California, but also conducts educational, research, and engagement activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
ADVOCACY and LOBBYINGThe Seamless Transit Principles have been developed by a coalition of non-profit groups to guide local, regional, and state decision-makers to pursue a seamlessly integrated, world-class transit system that works for people. The transit principles build off of the analysis and strategies identified in SPURs 2015 report, Seamless Transit.ENGAGEMENTSeamless Bay Area educates and engages members of the public to promote better transit planning through events across the entire region.
$203,679 spentof which $203,548 as grants$4,820 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $203,679.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $126k to $17k (−86%).
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.
96% of Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dave Sorrell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $98k → $169k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area’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
Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
85% 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 Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 85% · 2021 70% · 2022 67% · 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
25% of Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% 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
55% of Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area'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 $231k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k 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.
Against its field
Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area has grown faster than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area
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.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Seamless Bay Area Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area?
- Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,647 to it, the largest being Foundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain ($93,410). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $517,647 in grants to Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area?
- Foundation for Regional Transit DBA Friends of Caltrain is the largest funder on record, with $93,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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