OVERVIEW: The Nancy and Joachim Bechtle Foundation primarily funds arts, education, and health. IP TAKE: The Bechtle Foundation is a longtime supporter of San Francisco's arts and cultural institutions, with additional interests in education, … [Read more...] about Nancy and Joachim Bechtle Foundation
California Bay Area Grants
van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation
OVERVIEW: Located in San Francisco, the van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation promotes social justice in Northern California by means of legal services and advocacy. IP TAKE: The van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation is a good funder to know for … [Read more...] about van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation
Swig Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Swig Foundation focuses its grantmaking on the San Francisco Bay Area and funds art, education, youth, and other nonprofit organizations. IP TAKE: The Swig Foundation is a low-profile, difficult-to-access funder with no dedicated … [Read more...] about Swig Foundation
Chavez Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Chavez Family Foundation supports immigration, education and entrepreneurship in the Bay Area and elsewhere in California. IP TAKE: This funder favors well-led organizations with strong financial management, a record of meaningful … [Read more...] about Chavez Family Foundation
Stuart Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Stuart Foundation supports efforts to improve public education systems and help adolescents thrive, with current grantmaking focused primarily on California. Its priorities include high school transformation and adolescent learning, … [Read more...] about Stuart Foundation
Rupert H. Johnson Jr. Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Rupert H. Johnson Jr. Foundation supports education, health and medical research, arts and culture, interfaith work, and select public policy and community organizations. Grantmaking is concentrated in California, particularly the Bay … [Read more...] about Rupert H. Johnson Jr. Foundation
Skywords Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Skywords Family Foundation supports documentary film and media, agriculture and horticulture, and educational and publishing work connected to the interests of founders Michael Davis and Jyll Johnstone. Recent giving is highly … [Read more...] about Skywords Family Foundation
Magic Cabinet
OVERVIEW: Magic Cabinet supports community-rooted nonprofits through long-term, flexible capacity-building funding, participatory grantmaking and partnerships with intermediary funders. Its direct cohort grantmaking operates in California’s Bay Area … [Read more...] about Magic Cabinet
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
OVERVIEW: The Walter & Elise Haas Fund supports community well-being in the San Francisco Bay Area, with current grantmaking focused on economic well-being, social well-being, nonprofit leadership and organizational health, place, policy and … [Read more...] about Walter & Elise Haas Fund
J. Philip and Jennifer DiNapoli Foundation
OVERVIEW: The J. Philip and Jennifer DiNapoli Foundation supports arts and culture, Catholic and Jesuit education, human services and religious institutions, with a strong geographic concentration in Santa Clara County. IP TAKE: The DiNapoli … [Read more...] about J. Philip and Jennifer DiNapoli Foundation
Fat Tire Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Fat Tire Foundation supports type 1 diabetes research and related organizations, educational opportunity, efforts to reduce inequality in the Bay Area, and environmental conservation. Recent grantmaking has also included reproductive … [Read more...] about Fat Tire Foundation
Borch Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Borch Foundation supports education, community development, environmental conservation and a range of animal-welfare and human-services organizations. IP TAKE: This is a low-access, family-directed foundation with no public website, … [Read more...] about Borch Foundation
Dsea Wong Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Dsea Wong Foundation supports research, higher education, healthcare, arts and culture, human services, education and other community institutions. Recent giving has primarily reached organizations in Texas and California, with … [Read more...] about Dsea Wong Foundation
Hymowitz Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Hymowitz Family Foundation is a family funder with strong ties to the San Francisco Bay Area and recurring interests in Jewish communal life, Israel-related causes, education, disability services, humanitarian aid, arts and culture. It … [Read more...] about Hymowitz Family Foundation
Arrillaga Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Arrillaga Foundation supports higher education, health and human services through programs operating in Menlo Park and the greater Bay Area, but also in Los Angeles an Hawaii. IP TAKE: The Arrillaga Foundation is a tough funder … [Read more...] about Arrillaga Foundation
Tipping Point Community
OVERVIEW: Tipping Point Community is a San Francisco-based nonprofit grantmaker that supports organizations addressing poverty across the Bay Area. Its core funding areas are housing, early childhood, education and employment. In addition to … [Read more...] about Tipping Point Community
Peter E. Haas Jr. Family Fund
OVERVIEW: The Peter E. Haas Jr. Family Fund supports education, health, social services, community equity and democracy. Although the fund is sometimes informally associated with founders Ginnie and Peter Haas, its legal name is the Peter E. Haas Jr. … [Read more...] about Peter E. Haas Jr. Family Fund
Rock Foundation
OVERVIEW: The San Francisco-based Rock Foundation that supports education, Bay Area human services, civic information, human rights and a smaller assortment of institutional causes. IP TAKE: The Rock Foundation is an active funder that conducts … [Read more...] about Rock Foundation
Troper Wojcicki Philanthropies
OVERVIEW: Troper Wojcicki Philanthropies supports cancer research, climate solutions, humanitarian work and organizations serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Its grantmaking spans scientific research, environmental advocacy and conservation, … [Read more...] about Troper Wojcicki Philanthropies
Xie Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Xie Foundation primarily supports higher education, independent schools, STEM and robotics education, and select golf and youth-development organizations. IP TAKE: With more than $1.1 billion in assets, the Xie Foundation is one of … [Read more...] about Xie Foundation
Zellerbach Family Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Zellerbach Family Foundation organizes its grantmaking around themes of Safety & Belonging and Arts & Culture. Grantmaking centers on equity and justice for marginalized people and creating vibrant and inclusive … [Read more...] about Zellerbach Family Foundation
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation supports arts and culture, education, environmental conservation, civil rights, humanitarian relief and other charitable causes. Although based in San Francisco, its grantmaking extends well beyond the … [Read more...] about Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
Yelp Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Yelp Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the San Francisco-based company, Yelp. The company and foundation have interests in basic needs, children and youth, health, access to information, education, economic development and … [Read more...] about Yelp Foundation
Latino Community Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Latino Community Foundation describes itself as “the nation’s largest Latino-serving foundation,” funding grassroots nonprofits and advancing a multiracial democracy, with work organized around civic power, economic power, advocacy and … [Read more...] about Latino Community Foundation
Sobrato Philanthropies
OVERVIEW: Sobrato Philanthropies supports K-12 education, programs for English language success, economic opportunity, sustainable agriculture, housing & homelessness, and a range of other issue areas. Sobrato supports organizations across the … [Read more...] about Sobrato Philanthropies
Hellman Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Hellman Foundation supports Bay Area organizations in the areas of health, nutrition, education, economic opportunity and other community needs. This funder is currently spending down its endowment and will end its giving in … [Read more...] about Hellman Foundation
Yolo Community Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Yolo Community Foundation supports education, health, human services, arts and culture, community involvement, and civic causes in Yolo County, California. IP TAKE: This is a very responsive community foundation that is in tune with … [Read more...] about Yolo Community Foundation
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Philanthropic Ventures Foundation supports education, youth and community initiatives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. IP TAKE: PVF’s grantmaking is defined by creative, responsive, unorthodox, and hands‑on philanthropy. An … [Read more...] about Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
OVERVIEW: The East Bay Community Foundation combines the assets of multiple smaller foundations in Alameda and Contra Costa that support civic and neighborhood projects. It funds Arts and Culture, Capacity Building, Community Development, and … [Read more...] about East Bay Community Foundation
Lodi Community Foundation
OVERVIEW: The Lodi Community Foundation supports parks and recreation, health, arts and culture, animal welfare, youth and other community needs in Northern California. IP TAKE: This is a renewed and reinvigorated funder that is beginning to find … [Read more...] about Lodi Community Foundation
