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Community Vision Capital & Consulting

San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-3032394. Reported 34 grants totalling $835,461 to 28 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$14,479median reported grant
$835,461granted, 2020-2023
25%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Community Vision Capital & Consulting, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $14,479. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $34,404; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
20 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
First Nations Development InstituteLongmont, CO$91,513442023
Sogorea Te Land TrustOakland, CA$91,513442023
African American Alliance of Cdfi Ceos IncOrlando, FL$80,000112020
Central Valley Empowerment AllianceVisalia, CA$80,000112020
Revolutionary Economy for All Local Peoples FundSan Francisco, CA$57,038112023
Todo Verde LLCLos Angeles, CA$49,000112020
Fresno Food Commons TrustFresno, CA$48,687112020
California FarmlinkAptos, CA$40,000112021
Abode Housing DevelopmentFremont, CA$34,404112020
Northern California GrantmakersSan Francisco, CA$30,000112022
Solano Advocates for Victims of ViolenceVacaville, CA$30,000112022
Inspiring CommunitiesRichmond, CA$25,000112021
Little Manila FoundationStockton, CA$20,000112022
Calaveras Healthy Impact Product SolutionsWest Point, CA$18,306112021
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County IncWatsonville, CA$10,000112022
Ecf Community Development CorporationSn Bernrdno, CA$10,000112021
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra LibreLos Angeles, CA$10,000112021
Lowell Community Development CorporationFresno, CA$10,000112021
Malonga Arts CollectiveOakland, CA$10,000112022
Oakland Community Land TrustOakland, CA$10,000112021
People United for Sustainable Housing IncorporatedBuffalo, NY$10,000112021
Richmond Community-Owned Development EnterpriseRichmond, CA$10,000112021
Sacramento Community Land Trust IncSacramento, CA$10,000112021
South Bay Community Land TrustSan Jose, CA$10,000112021
Southwest Fresno Development CorpFresno, CA$10,000112021
Tenemos Que Reclamar Y Unidos Salvar La Tierra-South LaLos Angeles, CA$10,000112021
Thrive Santa AnaSanta Ana, CA$10,000112021
Youth AllianceHollister, CA$10,000112022

2 of 28 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Housing & Shelter
8 orgs
Community Improvement
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Employment
2 orgs
Environment
1 org
Education
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20207$320,115$48,687
202116$222,264$10,000
20228$164,494$23,623
20233$128,588$35,775

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

78% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$654K
Colorado
$92K
Florida
$80K
New York
$10K

Down to the city

Oakland, CA
$112K
Longmont, CO
$92K
San Francisco, CA
$87K
Orlando, FL
$80K
Visalia, CA
$80K
Los Angeles, CA
$69K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,479 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Community Vision Capital & Consulting's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 870 Market Street 677, San Francisco, CA, 94102.

EIN 94-3032394 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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