Richmond Community Foundation
Richmond, CA · EIN 94-3337754. Reported 82 grants totalling $3,730,737 to 56 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 Richmond Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T310).
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 28% 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. 44% 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 $28,989. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $54,458; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $320,220. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighter Beginnings | Richmond, CA | $1,037,690 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Opportunity Junction Inc | Antioch, CA | $378,471 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cobiz Richmond Inc | Richmond, CA | $272,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bay Area Legal Aid | Oakland, CA | $215,066 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond | Richmond, CA | $155,712 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rotary Club of Richmond Inc | Richmond, CA | $123,132 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Financial Resources | Oakland, CA | $113,866 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dreamcatchers Empowerment Network | Stockton, CA | $108,871 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | Richmond, CA | $107,283 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A B L E Community Development Foundation | Richmond, CA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Monument Impact | Concord, CA | $82,406 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Contra Costa Countycontra Costa Cares | Concord, CA | $81,724 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Clinica De La Raza Inc | Oakland, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lifelong Medical Care | Berkeley, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rotacare Bay Area Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Latina Center | Richmond, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Help a Life Foundation Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $48,878 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $40,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Village Community Resource Center | Brentwood, CA | $36,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland | Oakland, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northern California Land Trust Inc | Berkeley, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Achille Marchesiello Trust | Richmond, CA | $32,525 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Acce Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hijas Del Campo | Brentwood, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Coast Center for Victorious Youth | Pittsburg, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ff Hills Lp | Richmond, CA | $28,952 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aliados Health Network | Petaluma, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ceres Policy Research | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Multicultural Institute | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Menlo Westridge Affordable Partners | Richmond, CA | $23,740 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Richmond Police Activities League | Richmond, CA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Guardian Kw Hilltop LLC | Richmond, CA | $21,939 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Five Contra Costa | Richmond, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Zen Hospice Project Inc | San Francisco, CA | $19,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Menlo Westridge Moderate Apartments Lp | Richmond, CA | $15,942 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| US Reif Sierra Ridge Ca Lp | Richmond, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lih Liberty Village Apartments | Richmond, CA | $11,548 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aspiranet | S San Fran, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church | Richmond, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ephesians Community Development Center | Richmond, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Black Parents Resource Center | San Pablo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Training Institute for Leadership Enrichment | Alameda, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban Tilth | Richmond, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bre Piper Mf Tides Ca LLC | Chicago, IL | $8,728 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Monterey Venture Lp | Richmond, CA | $8,124 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keenan Howard Realty Inc | Richmond, CA | $8,050 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Contra Costa Crisis Center | Walnut Creek, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa | Martinez, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| People Who Care Children Association | Pittsburg, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| White Pony Express | Concord, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Essex Portfolio Lp | Richmond, CA | $6,763 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Menlo Affordable Partners Lp | Richmond, CA | $6,216 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Valero Property Management | Richmond, CA | $5,950 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rnhs Inc | Richmond, CA | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bg Asset Management Inc | Richmond, CA | $5,011 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Auburn Theological Seminary | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
14 of 56 (25%) 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.
- Community Finanacial Resources Cfr
MOBILITY LABS AND HEALTHY RICHMOND - Community Housing Development Corp
SPARKPOINT AND RICHMOND RAPID RESPONSE FUND - Abel Community Development Foundation
EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 56 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 | 11 | $783,298 | $57,480 |
| 2021 | 18 | $735,909 | $27,923 |
| 2022 | 45 | $1,624,325 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 8 | $587,205 | $41,238 |
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
100% 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 $28,989 -- 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 Richmond Community Foundation'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 8 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: 3260 Blume Drive 110, Richmond, CA, 94806.
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