The Impact Fund
Berkeley, CA · EIN 94-3161863. Reported 80 grants totalling $1,813,535 to 66 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 66 distinct organizations, with 5% 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. 18% 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 $22,250. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disability Rights Texas | Austin, TX | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | Fresno, CA | $77,135 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| A Better Childhood Inc | New York, NY | $67,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Upper Seven Law | Helena, MT | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Animal Legal Defense Fund | Sacramento, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Childrens Rights Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc | Southington, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hughes Socol Piers Resnick | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seventh Generation Advisors | Santa Monica, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Uptown Peoples Law Center | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Innovation Law Lab | Portland, OR | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Our Childrens Trust | Eugene, OR | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beldock Levine & Hoffman Llp | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fair Work Center | Seattle, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Earthrights International Inc | Washington, DC | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equity Legal Services Inc | Fairview Heights, IL | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pollock Cohen Llp | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waterlegacy | Duluth, MN | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Al Otro Lado Inc | San Ysidro, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center | Denver, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clean Water Fund | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Disability Rights North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Legal Services Inc | Orlando, FL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mobilization for Justice Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vladeck Raskin & Clark Pc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Coastkeeper | Sacramento, CA | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Food Safety | San Francisco, CA | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| ACLU of Montana Foundation Inc | Missoula, MT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Civil Liberties Defense Center | Eugene, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Defend Our Health | Portland, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equal Justice Under Law | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gitxaala Nation | Kitkatla, Kitkatla | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greenfire Law Pc | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Law Office William Most LLC | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northern Justice Project LLC | Anchorage, AK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rachel Lederman Law Office | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Southern Legal Counsel Inc | Gainesville, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest | Phoenix, AZ | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty | Washington, DC | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Channel Law Group Llp | Beverly Hills, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Elder Law and Disability Rights Center | Santa Ana, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Snake River Waterkeeper Inc | Boise, ID | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance Incorporated | Minneapolis, MN | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legal Aid Services of Oregon | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Public Law Center | Santa Ana, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid Inc | Mercedes, TX | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund | Mercersburg, PA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mountain State Justice Inc | Charleston, WV | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Worker Justice Center of New York Inc | Rochester, NY | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & | Atlanta, GA | $10,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aaron Halegua Pllc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc | Willimantic, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cadwell Sanford Deibert & Gar | Sioux Falls, SD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lone Star Justice Alliance | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Law Office of Dennis M Grzezi | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Midwest Environmental Advocates Inc | Madison, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Immigration Litigation Alliance Inc | Brookline, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Lawyers Guild Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for Empowerment | Phoenix, AZ | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Health Law Program Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jefferson County Foundation Inc | Ranson, WV | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
11 of 66 (17%) 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 37 of 66 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 | 14 | $235,000 | $13,500 |
| 2021 | 19 | $340,635 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $597,750 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 25 | $640,150 | $25,000 |
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
21% 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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 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 $22,250 -- 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 The Impact Fund'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 25 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: 2080 Addison Street 5, Berkeley, CA, 94704.
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