California · Nonprofit
Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund
Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE CHRISTENSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $338k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund 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.
$275,896 spentof which $3,750 as grants$26,529 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,896.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $83k to $52k (−38%).
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.
92% of Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund’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. 3 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Ian Griffiths
Exec Director
Board chair
Beaudry Kock
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $303k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seamless Bay Area Alliance formerly Seamless Bay Area). These are real filings, and they are not money Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund 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 formerly Seamless Bay Area Action 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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Seamless Bay Area Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action 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 Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund?
- Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE CHRISTENSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund.
- Who is the largest funder of Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action Fund?
- THE CHRISTENSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Seamless Bay Area formerly Seamless Bay Area Action 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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