Upstart Bay Area
Oakland, CA · EIN 26-3094076. Reported 119 grants totalling $6,113,162 to 74 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Upstart Bay Area, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S50) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 74 distinct organizations, with 19% 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.
- How much its list changes. 28% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $12,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $5,399 and the largest $721,737. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4G44 Esports Inc | Scottsdale, AZ | $1,167,860 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fjc | New York, NY | $472,546 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Embodied Jewish Learning | Berkeley, CA | $363,518 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gather Consulting LLC | Long Beach, CA | $251,860 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rakia Media LLC | Silver Spring, MD | $227,829 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $218,862 | 5 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boundless Israel Inc | Belmont, MA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upstart Bay Area | Oakland, CA | $166,600 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Aleph-Alliance for Jewish Renewal | Philadelphia, PA | $160,000 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Beloved Builders Inc | Northampton, MA | $140,800 | 4 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ish Festival | Cincinnati, OH | $120,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Advot | Los Angeles, CA | $112,425 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Farmer Network | Raleigh, NC | $104,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mission Edge San Diego | San Diego, CA | $101,699 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewfolk Media Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $101,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $101,117 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Fertility Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $101,072 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lehrhaus | Somerville, MA | $100,511 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Washington, DC | $100,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Blue Dove Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jews for Racial and Economic Justice | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Theirstory Inc | Rochester, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jqy Inc | New York, NY | $97,425 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Pollylabs Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | $80,360 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $80,350 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Educ Cent Inc | Newton, MA | $76,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Theatre Dybbuk | Los Angeles, CA | $76,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Congregation T Chiyah | Ferndale, MI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eden Village Camp Inc | Putnam Valley, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Growtorah Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tkiya Music Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $55,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Denver, CO | $51,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Studio 70 Dba Edah | Berkeley, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $40,899 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| At the Well Project Inc | Washington, DC | $39,650 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jumpstart Labs Inc | Chicago, IL | $37,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bruchim Inc | Boise, ID | $25,899 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Giving Back Fund Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Makom Community | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| No Shame on U Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Descendants of Holocaust Survivors | Tully, NY | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Custom and Craft Jewish Rituals Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jcc Maccabi Sports Camp | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jewish Kids Groups Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rappers and Rebbes Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom | N Brunswick, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Human Rights Haggadah Limited | Kenosha, WI | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Song Project Inc | Skokie, IL | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lev Childrens Museum Inc | Cooper City, FL | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sing Unto God | Chicago, IL | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Embrace Harlem | New York, NY | $18,650 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kol Halev | Boynton Beach, FL | $18,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kinhood | Oakland, CA | $18,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Strategies for Effective Team | Washington, DC | $17,980 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Finding North | Maplewood, NJ | $17,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ibrahim Baba Institute Incorporated | Chapel Hill, NC | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Svivah Inc | Washington, DC | $15,650 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hazon Inc | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| I Was Supposed to Have a Baby Inc | Teaneck, NJ | $14,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beloved Garden | Florence, MA | $13,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bishulim Sf | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Challah for Hunger | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Footsteps Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Judaism Your Way | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Keshet | Northbrook, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Libenu | Skokie, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mechon Hadar | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ramah in the Rockies | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Shefa Jewish Psychedelic Support | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Urban Adamah | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wilderness Torah | Berkeley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Or Halev Center for Jewish Spirituality and Meditation Inc | Covina, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boulder Jewish Community Center | Boulder, CO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Reboot Inc | Longmeadow, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
22 of 74 (30%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Rakia Media LLC
Fiscal Sponsorship Grants - The Efshar Project
Israel Crisis Support Microgrants - Jumpstart Labs Inc
Collaboratory Challenge Grant - Custom Craft and Jewish Rit
CUSTOM CRAFT AND JEWISH RIT.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 53 of 74 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $1,718,387 | $18,180 |
| 2021 | 18 | $967,907 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 38 | $1,596,945 | $20,500 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,829,923 | $30,899 |
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
26% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 Upstart Bay Area'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 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 11 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: 1111 Broadway 3RD Floor, Oakland, CA, 94607.
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