Funding search · EIN 946068932 · San Francisco, CA

Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

645
grants reported
$72.5M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$40,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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15 grants matching “polls · $4.7M

  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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.

  • $50,500

    Latino Community Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

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

  • $2.4M

    University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    To transform the student population and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus; for the institute for governmental studies project to conduct polling and host events on democracy in california; to maintain the und read all
  • $308,000

    Common Cause Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    In honor of jonathan mehta stein; for the fund's 70th anniversary; for democracy reform; for assistance with design and analysis of polling on california's democracy.

  • $259,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To protect voting rights of asian american and pacific islanders and to lead election related language accessibility reforms; to support improving language access in elections; for the fund's 70th anniversary; to suppor read all
  • $258,500

    California Calls Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; for voter engagement and democracy reform; for assistance with polling and support for a related event.

  • $137,500

    California Black Power Network · Long Beach, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to strengthen a statewide network of black-led and black-serving community based organizations seeking to dismantle systemic and anti-black racism; for assistance with design and analysi read all
  • $107,000

    Free Press · Florence, MA · 2023

    To combat misinformation and disinformation in california; for the fund's 70th anniversary; to support polling on the health of our information ecosystem and the impact of that system on civic engagement and democracy.

  • $57,000

    Naleo Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to study enforcement of language access laws and to conduct polling on latino voters.

  • $35,500

    Courage California Institute · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    In honor of lisa garcia bedolla; to support polling and focus groups to better understand california voters' positions on key issues and identify key pathways to engagement and organizing.

  • $35,000

    Naleo Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To seek strategies for improved language access in elections and to conduct a weekly latino tracking poll.

Top recipients

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  • Tides Center4 grants · $6.9M
  • University of California Berkeley Foundation8 grants · $5.4M
  • Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy7 grants · $5.0M
  • Positive Coaching Alliance5 grants · $4.9M
  • Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund9 grants · $4.0M
  • California Calls Education Fund5 grants · $1.4M
  • San Francisco Foundation6 grants · $1.1M
  • Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund5 grants · $1.0M
  • Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund4 grants · $848,500
  • Foundation for California Community Colleges3 grants · $821,470

Giving over time

$23.8M
2022
$24.2M
2023
$24.5M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 645 grants.

  • $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 read all
  • $2.4M

    University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    To transform the student population and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus; for the institute for governmental studies project to conduct polling and host events on democracy in california; to maintain the und read all
  • $2.3M

    University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    To transform the student population and create a more welcoming and inclusive campus.

  • $2.3M

    Positive Coaching Alliance · Oakland, CA · 2023

    To scale operations and expand the number of coaches and youth reached in underserved communities; for the fund's 70th anniversary; to scale impact and expand the number of coaches and youth reached, and one-time suppor read all
  • $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 read all
  • $2.0M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    For flexible leadership awards to haas, jr. Fund grantees and to launch the leaderstrust as independent entity; for emerging practitioners in philanthropy membership dues; for the fund's 70th anniversary; for general su read all
  • $1.6M

    Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For the next phase of capital improvements at crissy field.

  • $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.

  • $1.6M

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For flexible leadership awards to haas, jr. Fund grantees and launch of the leaderstrust as an independent entity.

  • $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 read all
  • $1.3M

    Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To help raise and distribute emergency support to families and individuals in the bay area; for the fund's 70th anniversary; for general support.

  • $1.1M

    Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For emergency support to families and individuals in the bay area.

  • $1.0M

    Positive Coaching Alliance · Oakland, CA · 2022

    To scale operations and expand the number of coaches and youth reached in underserved communities.

  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $628,208

    Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    For a planning grant for crissy field; for the fund's 70th anniversary; for the trails forever dinner celebration and annual renewal; for general support; for crissy field planning; for general support.

  • $550,000

    Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For a planning grant for crissy field.

  • $539,225

    Horizons Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To strengthen a culture of lgbt giving in the bay area and make capacity building re-grants to former fund grantees; for a planned giving initiative to strengthen lgbt organizations nationwide; to increase the number of read all
  • $500,000

    Inland Empire Community Foundation · Riverside, CA · 2023

    For the black equity initiative of the inland empire.

  • $500,000

    Freedom for All Americans Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    To support a responsible wind-down of the organization.

  • $450,000

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023

    For the four freedoms fund project, to provide support to the immigrant justice movement, increase civic engagement, and promote humane border policies; for the i-center project to launch as a network committed to trans read all
  • $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 read all
  • $351,000

    Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023

    For the oakland rising project, to support community engagement, leadership development, and alliance building in oakland and alameda county; for the bay rising project, to support power building, leadership development read all
  • $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 read all
  • $339,500

    Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    To defend daca and advance voting rights; for familia tqlm for the fund's 70th anniversary; for the fund's 70th anniversary; in honor of thomas saenz; for the familia trans queer liberation movement project to support o read all
  • $325,000

    Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees · Petaluma, CA · 2023

    To mobilize philanthropic support for immigrant justice and belonging; for membership; to mobilize philanthropic support the movement for immigrant justice and belonging.

  • $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 read all
  • $308,000

    Common Cause Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    In honor of jonathan mehta stein; for the fund's 70th anniversary; for democracy reform; for assistance with design and analysis of polling on california's democracy.

  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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

    Equivalence Systems · Oakland, CA · 2024

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

  • $300,000

    National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To advance legal protections and economic benefits for immigrants.

  • $300,000

    California Calls Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To increase the civic participation of people of color and young people in california.

  • $300,000

    California Immigrant Policy Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To advance the economic mobility of immigrant families in california and grow strategic messaging capacity in the immigrant rights movement.

  • $275,000

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

    To advance immigrant and voting rights for latino communities.

  • $275,000

    National Association of System Heads · Adelphi, MD · 2023

    To identify institutional innovative practices to remove cost as a barrier to higher education; to expand the number of awards available for institutional innovative practices that remove cost as a barrier to higher edu read all
  • $275,000

    Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To defend daca and advance voting rights.

  • $273,000

    Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mountain View, CA · 2023

    For the california black freedom fund, to support research on voter engagement tools and platforms; for the california black freedom fund, to support piloting the use of new digital platforms for organizing and voter en read all
  • $261,500

    San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    For an advised fund.

  • $259,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To protect voting rights of asian american and pacific islanders and to lead election related language accessibility reforms; to support improving language access in elections; for the fund's 70th anniversary; to suppor read all
  • $258,500

    California Calls Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; for voter engagement and democracy reform; for assistance with polling and support for a related event.

  • $258,500

    Campaign for College Opportunity · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    To support policy advocacy for debt free pathway to college, shorten time to degree, and make college admissions more equitable; for the fund's 70th anniversary; to host a dinner for california leaders at the complete c read all
  • $251,459

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the center for inclusive democracy project's election research; for the center for inclusive democracy, for the fund's 70th anniversary; for the usc equity research institute to advance collaborative data analysis, read all
  • $250,000

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

    For the four freedoms fund project, to provide support to the immigrant justice movement, increase civic engagement, and promote humane border policies.

  • $250,000

    Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For the orange county civic engagement table project, for voter engagement, leadership development, and policy advocacy.

  • $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 read all
  • $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.

  • $217,000

    Education Trust · Oakland, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to help with california's fafsa/cadaa completion requirement; to support the california college affordability summit.

  • $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 read all
  • $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 read all
  • $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.

  • $207,000

    Community Change · Washington, DC · 2023

    To strengthen movement building and public education for immigrant rights; for the fund's 70th anniversary.

  • $207,000

    Haitian Bridge Alliance · Aliso Viejo, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to provide advocacy, legal protections and humanitarian services focused on black migrants.

  • $207,000

    Justice Action Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to engage movement leaders on strategic communications on the southern border and on a daca project.

  • $207,000

    National Day Laborer Organizing Network · Pasadena, CA · 2023

    To advance policies protecting immigrant workers and shape a more positive narrative about their contributions; for the fund's 70th anniversary.

  • $207,000

    The Institute for College Access and Success (Ticas) · Oakland, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to support ongoing education and advocacy efforts to increase college access and affordability in california.

  • $207,000

    United We Dream Network · Washington, DC · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; to protect undocumented youth and expand legal pathways to citizenship.

  • $200,000

    Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024

    To advance economic mobility and justice for immigrant communities.

  • $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

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

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

  • $200,000

    Justice Action Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To advance strategic litigation, communications, and narrative change.

  • $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

    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

    United We Dream Network · Washington, DC · 2024

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

  • $200,000

    Arizona State University Foundation · Tempe, AZ · 2023

    To codify key elements of the asu local for scale to serve more underrepresented students in higher education.

  • $200,000

    Community Learning Partnership · Washington, DC · 2023

    For the california youth leadership corps to advance a program for community college students seeking careers in immigration legal services.

  • $200,000

    East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023

    For bay area power building research and support for the convening of funders; for the fund for multiracial democracy to support city of oakland leadership and community co-governance.

  • $200,000

    Asian American Futures · Irvine, CA · 2022

    For the native hawaiian pacific islander narrative and power project.

  • $200,000

    California Budget and Policy Center · Sacramento, CA · 2022

    To bolster the power of community-based organizations that represent bipoc communities to engage in public budgeting processes.

  • $200,000

    California Community Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To launch a power fund to support statewide community organizing infrastructure and related convening, learning and development efforts.

  • $200,000

    California State University Foundation · Long Beach, CA · 2022

    To create a california state university task force to promote long-term financial sustainability for the system and improved affordability for students and families.

  • $200,000

    Campaign for College Opportunity · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To support policy advocacy to make california's public colleges and universities more affordable for low-income students and students of color.

  • $200,000

    Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2022

    To strengthen movement building in the immigrant rights field.

  • $200,000

    Emerald Cities Collaborative · Washington, DC · 2022

    For the california youth leadership corps, to launch a program for community college students seeking careers in immigration legal services and language justice.

  • $200,000

    Inland Empire Community Foundation · Riverside, CA · 2022

    For the black equity fund launched by the black equity initiative of the inland empire, to strengthen and scale black-led organizations' sustainability and civic influence.

  • $200,000

    National Day Laborer Organizing Network · Pasadena, CA · 2022

    To advance narrative and policy change for immigrant workers and their families.

  • $200,000

    San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For an advised fund.

  • $200,000

    The Institute for College Access and Success (Ticas) · Oakland, CA · 2022

    To support policy advocacy and research to protect state investments in financial aid and narrow equity gaps in student loan debt.

  • $200,000

    Ufw Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To advocate for pathways to citizenship for farm workers and implement economic relief programs.

  • $200,000

    United We Dream Network · Washington, DC · 2022

    To advocate for immigration protections for youth.

  • $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 read all
  • $187,000

    Inland Empire United Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the fund's 70th anniversary; for civic engagement, leadership development, and structural reform in the inland empire.

  • $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 read all
  • $185,000

    Young Invincibles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To help california student loan borrowers take advantage of federal debt relief and advocate for student loan debt reform.

  • $182,000

    National Immigration Forum · Washington, DC · 2023

    To broaden the base of support across the conservative spectrum for immigration reform; for the fund's 70th anniversary.

  • $175,000

    National Immigration Forum · Washington, DC · 2024

    To strengthen support and center coalitions for immigration reform.

  • $175,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To protect voting rights of asian american and pacific islanders and to lead election-related language accessibility reforms.

  • $175,000

    Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For the bay rising project, to support power building, leadership development, and advancing a small-donor campaign finance system in the bay area.

  • $175,000

    Chinese for Affirmative Action · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    For research on immigrant voting and improving language access in elections.

  • $175,000

    Education Trust · Oakland, CA · 2022

    To increase financial support for low-income students and students of color at california's public colleges and universities.

  • $175,000

    Movement Advancement Project · Boulder, CO · 2022

    To provide independent and rigorous research, insight, and communications that help speed equality and opportunity for all.

  • $175,000

    National Center for Lesbian Rights · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To advance the civil and human rights of lgbt people and their families.

  • $175,000

    National Immigration Forum · Washington, DC · 2022

    To broaden movement building and create narrative change in support of immigrant rights.

  • $175,000

    Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mountain View, CA · 2022

    To convene stakeholders for a review of the voter's choice act.

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