Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $3.3M

  Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the move the valley project to engage voters in the central valley. For the leaderstrust to provide flexible leadership awards to hjf grantees and support its growth as a self-sustaining entity, for emerging practit…

• $2.2M

  Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Volunteer services grant; to the haas, jr. Fund single entity beneficiary fund at ggnpc for future improvements. For general support. For the trails forever dinner celebration. For the trails forever dinner celebration …

• $1.6M

  Positive Coaching Alliance · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To scale impact and expand the number of coaches and youth reached, and one-time support for the acceleration fundraising plan. Board services grant; for general support.

• $1.5M

  Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support season of sharing's research and innovative marketing experiments to engage younger and more diverse donors, and implementation of refreshed branding, positioning and fundraising strategies. To help raise and…

• $750,000

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

  To the four freedoms fund to educate and engage a national network of funders, promote immigrant civic participation and humane border policies, and coordinate rapid response for immigrant rights. To the four freedoms f…

• $690,000

  Foundation for California Community Colleges · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  2024 fdn ca cmty colleges, arthur s. Marmaduke award (clg); for california college guidance initiative to begin to develop resources and materials for classroom use that will systematize a baseline of college and career…

• $650,000

  California Calls Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For voter engagement and democracy reform. To support the convening of we are california/project day one coalition, and narrative and agenda development. For the million voters project of california calls to engage vote…

• $640,750

  University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  To transform the student population and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus. For the institute for governmental studies project at uc berkeley to conduct polling and host events on democracy in california. To d…

• $420,000

  San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the india basin equitable development plan fund to support the development of the india basin waterfront park. For general support.

• $418,525

  Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For sponsorship of fund the people's talent justice summit. For socal can to continue and expand the work to ensure first-generation, low-income, minority, and undocumented students have access to state and federal fina…

• $345,000

  Complete College America · Indianapolis, IN · 2024

  To develop a comprehensive roadmap for california's higher education systems to achieve the governor's college degree attainment goal of 70% of california adults (aged 25-64) earning degrees. To sponsor complete college…

• $320,000

  Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans · City Heights, CA · 2024

  To advance the full civic inclusion of black, arab, middle eastern, southeast asian, and muslim refugee and immigrant communities. To support a new independent revenue generation project with support from the progressiv…

• $305,000

  Common Cause Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the development of a language access campaign. For the california initiative for technology and democracy project's community outreach as well as for the california common cause project's independent revenue generat…

• $300,000

  Equivalence Systems · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To accelerate the development of an ai platform to streamline the transfer process.

• $300,000

  California Immigrant Policy Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To advance the economic mobility of immigrant youth and strengthen regional advocacy and organizing infrastructure for the benefit of all immigrants in california. Over 18 months.; for colab to advance narrative change …

• $300,000

  Campaign for College Opportunity · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For education and advocacy efforts to increase college access and affordability in california.

• $300,000

  National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To advance legal protections and economic benefits for immigrants.

• $275,000

  Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To advance immigrant and voting rights for latino communities.

• $245,000

  Pico California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support faith-based organizing, civic engagement, narrative change, and leadership development. To support pico california's new year statewide leadership assembly in oakland. To study and improve voter engagement me…

• $225,000

  Public Policy Institute of California · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support research on college access and success by the center for higher education at ppic. To support research on vote centers and drop boxes in voters choice act counties.

• $225,000

  Working Partnerships USA · San Jose, CA · 2024

  For coalition building and public education on the benefits of democracy dollars. To support the development and convening of a coalition seeking to educate about the potential for democracy dollars in san jose.

• $220,000

  National Day Laborer Organizing Network · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  To advance policies that improve the lives of immigrant workers and pro-immigrant narratives. To strengthen membership-based movement lawyering to protect immigrant workers.

• $215,000

  California Competes · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To california competes to strengthen its research and advocacy efforts on policy issues related to higher education and workforce development in california. To sponsor their 2025 nonpartisan higher education policy even…

• $215,000

  American Business Immigration Coalition · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To seed efforts to scale business and employer coalitions in california to push back against deportations. To lead a nationwide coalition advancing legal and policy solutions, economic mobility, and strategic communicat…

• $210,000

  Immigrants Rising · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For general support; for the higher education division to continue its advocacy and support for policies related to access and affordability in higher education for immigrant students.

• $200,000

  The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To advance the economic and academic wellbeing of immigrant college students in california.

• $200,000

  City of Oakland · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For the city of oakland's public ethics commission to add capacity to assist with the development and implementation of an equity-centered democracy dollars engagement plan.

• $200,000

  Justice Action Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To advance strategic litigation, communications, and narrative change.

• $200,000

  United We Dream Network · Washington, DC · 2024

  To protect immigrant youth, expand legal pathways, and advance strategic communications.

• $200,000

  Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees · Petaluma, CA · 2024

  To strengthen grassroots immigrant rights organizing and rapid response across california.

• $200,000

  Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the orange county civic engagement table to support faith-based organizing, civic engagement, narrative change, and leadership development.

• $200,000

  Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024

  To advance economic mobility and justice for immigrant communities.

• $197,500

  Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For the oakland rising project to conduct voter engagement and leadership development in alameda county. For the bay rising project's government power project for leadership development and co-governance work. For the o…

• $185,000

  The Institute for College Access and Success · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To support ongoing education and advocacy efforts to increase college access and affordability in california. To cover registration fees and travel for three students and one ticas staff member to attend complete colleg…

• $175,000

  National Immigration Forum · Washington, DC · 2024

  To strengthen support and center coalitions for immigration reform.

• $165,000

  Chinese Progressive Association · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the asian americans and pacific islanders for civic empowerment education fund project to polling, research, and policy development to support aapi civic participation. To support aapi leadership development, and vo…

• $163,000

  National Skills Coalition · Washington, DC · 2024

  To advocate for immigrant inclusion and economic mobility through workforce development programs.

• $150,075

  National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024

  To the president's alliance on higher education and immigration for policy advocacy and technical assistance focused on immigrant and mixed-status families to address anticipated submission challenges related to the faf…

• $150,000

  Uaspire · Boston, MA · 2024

  For general support to uaspire to assist in the statewide growth of the free application for federal student aid (fafsa) and california dreamers act application (cadaa) completion rates.

• $150,000

  The Young Center for Immigrant Children'S Rights · Chicago, IL · 2024

  To protect and advance the wellbeing of immigrant and refugee children.

• $150,000

  Aclu Foundation of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support language access, expand voting rights, and defend and reform the california voting rights act.

• $150,000

  Inland Empire United Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support civic engagement and leadership development in the inland empire.

• $150,000

  First Gen Empower · Hayward, CA · 2024

  For project support to immediately help college-access organizations support undocumented students in completing cadaa. For one year for firstgen empower to focus on its overall growth as an organization to expand its c…

• $150,000

  Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To strengthen immigrant rights movement litigation. To support legal pathways and economic mobility for immigrant communities.

• $150,000

  Black Alliance for Just Immigration · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  To build organizing and service capacity to advance the rights of migrant families and youth.

• $145,000

  Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project · New York, NY · 2024

  To advance the rights of asylum seekers in the united states. To convene and build the capacity of membership-based immigrant rights organizations.

• $135,500

  Catalyst California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support efforts to create a coalition space to explore campaign finance reform and establish a coalition in orange county to explore opportunities to enact democracy dollars. For assistance with design and analysis o…

• $135,000

  Power California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To support youth focused civic and voter engagement statewide.

• $125,000

  Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice · San Bernardino, CA · 2024

  To strengthen services, civic engagement, and economic opportunities for immigrants in the inland empire.

• $125,000

  Beyond 12 Education · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To pilot a virtual coaching program at uc riverside that helps students navigate the re-enrollment process and persist to degree attainment.

• $125,000

  Senior Class Project · Santa Monica, CA · 2024

  For three frames to launch a marketing strategy and national impact campaign to raise awareness of documentary series, the class, on pbs.

• $125,000

  Oakland Kids First · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For research, advocacy, organizing, coalition leadership, implementation monitoring, and voter engagement in support of the success of vote at 16 in oakland.

• $120,000

  California Black Power Network · Long Beach, CA · 2024

  To strengthen a statewide network of black-led and black-serving community based organizations seeking to dismantle systemic and anti-black racism. To support a new independent revenue generation project with support fr…

• $115,000

  Aliento Education Fund · Phoenix, AZ · 2024

  To support immigrant youth leadership development and engagement.

• $113,500

  Define American · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To advance narrative change and strengthen digital narrative change infrastructure. For general support in honor of jose antonio vargas and shauna siggelkow. For general support.

• $110,000

  Council On American-Islamic Relations California · Anaheim, CA · 2024

  To support afghan immigrant and refugee integration, pathway to citizenship, and youth development in the sacramento valley.

• $105,000

  California Community Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For the 2024 democracy fund at the california community foundation to support civic engagement. 2025 lapefc membership

• $103,400

  Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative · Richmond, CA · 2024

  To solidify the rivet school bridge program in oakland. For general support.

• $100,500

  Free Press · Florence, MA · 2024

  For free press to combat mis- and disinformation in non-english languages, organize civil society leaders and public interest groups, and raise awareness of how people are being targeted with manipulation efforts. For i…

• $100,000

  Jewish Family Service of San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2024

  To support asylum seekers through innovative shelter services and advocate for legal pathways.

• $100,000

  America'S Voice Educational Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  To strengthen strategic communications capacity and rapid response efforts in the immigrant rights movement.

• $100,000

  Chinese for Affirmative Action · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support building a coalition to expand access to voting opportunities for immigrants. For the california local voting coalition's efforts to expand immigrant voting rights.

• $100,000

  Central Valley Partnership · Fresno, CA · 2024

  To develop and support a coalition seeking to defend and expand access to the california voting rights act.

• $100,000

  East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For the bay area regional power-building funders table project to support the development of research and practices on recruiting and retaining organizing staff in the bay area. For the fund for multiracial democracy to…

• $100,000

  Education Trust · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To help with california's fafsa/cadaa completion requirement.

• $100,000

  Nextgen Climate America · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  For the campaign for california borrowers' rights to develop capacity to work in the college access, affordability and persistence ecosystem.

• $100,000

  Progressive Multiplier Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  To provide strategic assistance and coaching to a cohort of grantees for their development of independent revenue generation projects.

• $100,000

  Ufw Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To protect the rights of farmworkers in california and advance economic wellbeing.

• $100,000

  Unite-La · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To help public higher education and regional employer partners in the los angeles area understand and put in place the infrastructure needed to implement laep.

• $75,000

  Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability · Fresno, CA · 2024

  To combat inequality in the san joaquin and eastern coachella valleys by seeking improved community civic engagement, leadership development, coalition building and governance of drinking water.

• $75,000

  Farmworker Justice Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  To advance legal pathways and improved working conditions for farmworkers.

• $75,000

  Urban Habitat Program · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To support training for appointed leaders and key government insiders in the bay area.

• $75,000

  Everyday Impact Consulting · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  To study the potential for civic engagement investment in sacramento and for strategic democracy work statewide.

• $75,000

  Mandala Strategies · Walnut Creek, CA · 2024

  To conduct a landscape scan and analysis of the advocacy coalition ecosystem focused on college access, persistence, success, and affordability.

• $70,000

  Initiate Justice · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To improve voting access for people impacted by the criminal justice system, and organize and engage members inside and outside of prison. To support a new independent revenue generation project with support from the pr…

• $69,500

  Yolo Community Foundation · Woodland, CA · 2024

  To support the yolo county leadership academy project to develop diverse leadership focused on equity at clerk, recorder, assessor, and registrar offices. To support the youth empowerment summit in yolo county. For the …

• $61,000

  Northern California Grantmakers · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For membership dues and support for a democracy initiative. For membership dues.

• $60,500

  Asian American Futures · Irvine, CA · 2024

  For the activate ca project to utilize micro-influencers and content creators to reach low-propensity aapi voters between the ages of 18-29 through social media content and direct mailers. For assistance with design and…

• $55,500

  American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To expand and defend voting rights, expand access to language services, and establish opportunities for voter registration at state agencies. For assistance with design and analysis of polling on california democracy.

• $55,000

  Local Progress Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  To train and develop the leadership of diverse, values aligned local elected officials in the inland empire region. To sponsor 2024 national conference on building local governing power in oakland.

• $50,500

  Latino Community Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support polling of california latino voters ahead of the 2024 election.

• $50,000

  Southern California Grantmakers · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For the inland empire funders alliance civic engagement pooled fund project to support grants for inland empire nonprofits for voter engagement in the region.

• $50,000

  Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project · Oxnard, CA · 2024

  To provide services, leadership development, and economic opportunities for indigenous migrants with an emphasis on youth.

• $50,000

  National Association of System Heads · Adelphi, MD · 2024

  To nash to develop a summative description of 32 projects that were awarded funding from the 2024 catalyst fund to identify institutional innovative practices to remove cost as a barrier to higher education.

• $50,000

  Rockwood Leadership Institute · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To provide high quality and innovative leadership programs.

• $50,000

  Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indgena Oaxaqueo · Fresno, CA · 2024

  To provide services and advocate for the legal and linguistic needs of indigenous migrants and families in the central valley and central coast.

• $45,000

  Flamenco Arts International · Redwood City, CA · 2024

  For general support.

• $40,000

  Kdw Moving Images Llc · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For the filming of a documentary chronicling the nascent immigrant suffrage movement in california.

• $35,000

  Red Tab Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For general support. For general support.

• $34,000

  University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To sponsor the center for inclusive democracy's conference on the 2024 election.

• $32,500

  National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2024

  For joint philanthropy projects. For membership dues.

• $31,000

  California Budget and Policy Center · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  For its 30th anniversary and policy insights conference. For its 2024 policy insights conference. For general support.

• $30,000

  California Pacific Medical Center Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To deliver healthcare and other services to patients and communities.

• $30,000

  University of California Berkeley Found · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Undocumented students program; underground scholars program; basic needs security program.

• $30,000

  Pipeline · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To support training for local leaders who intend to run for office or seek commission appointments in the inland empire.

• $25,000

  Faith in the Valley · Stockton, CA · 2024

  To conduct outreach to system impacted residents in the central valley and inform them of their right to vote.

• $25,000

  League of Women Voters of California Education Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  To support voter education and efforts to remove structural barriers to voting.

• $25,000

  Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  To support strengthening and improving labor conditions for community organizers.

• $25,000

  Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For an annual contribution.

• $25,000

  Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy · Ventura, CA · 2024

  For leadership development of middle management and new supervisors at non-profits in the central coast.