Room to Breathe Project
San Francisco, CA · EIN 83-2600550. Reported 81 grants totalling $8,868,322 to 52 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Room to Breathe Project did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $18 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca Family of Agencies | Oakland, CA | $1,299,178 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Schwab Charitable | Lone Tree, CO | $1,075,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Schwab Charitable | San Francisco, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | Oakland, CA | $900,050 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| US Foundation for Queens University of Kingston | Washington, DC | $732,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Education Fund | San Franciso, CA | $637,769 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Illuminate the Arts | San Francisco, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tipping Point Community | San Francisco, CA | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Francisco University High School | San Francisco, CA | $335,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Stanford School of Business - Gsb | Stanford, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Insead Management Education Foundation | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Day School | San Francisco, CA | $190,550 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of North America | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health Career Connection | Oakland, CA | $138,400 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community of Ottawa | Ottawa, Ontario K2A 1R9 | $136,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jcrc Bay Area | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mission Graduates | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Graduates Compaign | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Primary School - Bridge to Preschool | East Palo Alto, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Primary School | East Palo Alto, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Senators Community Foundation | Ottawa, Ontario K2V 1A5 | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Community Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northstar Team | Truckee, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation | Ottawa, Ontario K2A 1R9 | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Jewish Appeal Federation | New York, NY | $16,880 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Cocina | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Le Royal | Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7K4 | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ottawa Hospital Foundation | Ontario K1Y 1J8 | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wellness Together | Roseville, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $5,032 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Share Our Strength | Washington, DC | $5,032 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canamission Food Hub | San Francisco, CA | $5,024 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eatlearnplay | Oakland, CA | $5,024 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sierra Community House | Incline Village, NV | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Elite Academy | San Francisco, CA | $1,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tahoe Food Hub | Truckee, CA | $1,556 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Make More Music Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Paypal Giving Fund | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pennfield Presbyterian Church | Battle Creek, MI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parkinson Canada | Toronto, Ontario M2P 2A9 | $741 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mental Health America | Alexandria, VA | $159 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Street Soccer USA | New York, NY | $62 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $38 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $38 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unicef USA | Palo Alto, CA | $21 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $18 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
8 of 52 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 29%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Schwab Charitable
HAMILTON/BORO CHARITABLE FUND - US Foundation for Queens University of Kingston
SUPPORT PEER HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMS - Seneca Family of Agencies
UE COACH ROLES AT DREW, MXA, AND JOHN MUIR - Peer Health Exchange Inc
TO SUPPORT HEALTH PROGRAMS - San Francisco Education Fund
EDUCATOR WELL BEING INITIATIVE - University of California Berkeley
PLEDGE PMT 2 OF 2 SUPPORTING GREATER GOOD ONLINE COURSES FOR EDUCATORS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $926,879 | $20,289 |
| 2022 | 14 | $1,983,750 | $4,625 |
| 2023 | 30 | $2,067,121 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $3,890,572 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Room to Breathe Project has 8 of them, worth $1,738,523. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| US Foundation for Queens University of Kingston | Washington, DC | $1,099,375 |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | Oakland, CA | $498,813 |
| San Francisco Education Fund | San Franciso, CA | $53,060 |
| Seneca Family of Agencies | Oakland, CA | $50,427 |
| Children's Day School | San Francisco, CA | $21,250 |
| San Francisco Education Fund | San Franciso, CA | $9,649 |
| Share Our Strength | Washington, DC | $5,032 |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | Oakland, CA | $917 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Room to Breathe Project's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 135 Main Street 850, San Francisco, CA, 94105. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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