Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation

What they fund

developmenteducationfoodartsprofessionalagricultureclimatesystems

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• San Francisco Foundation3 grants · $1.4M
• Inside Climate News2 grants · $300,000
• Friends of the Earth3 grants · $240,000
• Movement Strategy Center3 grants · $225,000
• Kitchen Table Advisors3 grants · $225,000
• Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability3 grants · $225,000
• Mandela Partners3 grants · $225,000
• Carbon Cycle Institute3 grants · $225,000
• Californians for Pesticide Reform2 grants · $200,000
• Create Ca3 grants · $160,000

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 171 grants.

• $800,000

  San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the clarence e. Heller charitable foundation donor advised fund

• $292,000

  San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For the clarence e. Heller charitable foundation donor advised fund

• $292,000

  San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For the clarence e. Heller charitable foundation donor advised fund

• $150,000

  Inside Climate News · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  For coverage of key issues connecting climate change, agriculture, and food systems

• $150,000

  Inside Climate News · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  For coverage of key issues connecting climate change, agriculture, and food systems

• $100,000

  Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc and Californians for Pesticide Ref · Calabasas, CA · 2024

  To protect public health from highly toxic chemicals in california agriculture

• $100,000

  Californians for Pesticide Reform · Calabasas, CA · 2023

  To protect public health from highly toxic chemicals in california agriculture

• $100,000

  Ritter Center · San Rafael, CA · 2023

  For the capital campaign

• $100,000

  University of California Santa Cruz · Oakland, CA · 2023

  To recruit talented students to become agroecologists and organic practitioners through degree programs at berkeley, davis, and santa cruz

• $100,000

  Californians for Pesticide Reform · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $100,000

  Healthy Babies Bright Futures · Charlottesville, VA · 2022

  To protect infants from exposure to dangerous chemicals during the first 1,000 days of life

• $90,000

  Friends of the Earth · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  To improve the climate footprint of school in california

• $80,000

  Create Ca · Pasadena, CA · 2022

  Capacity building for public policy development

• $75,000

  As You Sow · El Cerrito, CA · 2024

  Food should be safe project

• $75,000

  Carbon Cycle Institute · Petaluma, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $75,000

  Friends of the Earth · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  To improve the climate footprint of school food in california

• $75,000

  Kitchen Table Advisors · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $75,000

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

  For general support

• $75,000

  Mandela Partners · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $75,000

  Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Fundraising task force pilot program to bolster fiscally sponsored projects focused on environmental and climate justice

• $75,000

  The University Foundation California State University Chico · Chico, CA · 2024

  To support the center for regenerative agriculture and resilient systems

• $75,000

  Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For the food sovereignty initiative

• $75,000

  California State University Chico · Chico, CA · 2023

  To support the center for regenerative agriculture and resilient systems

• $75,000

  Carbon Cycle Institute · Petaluma, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $75,000

  First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2023

  For food sovereignty initiatives that focus on land access and local food systems

• $75,000

  Friends of the Earth · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  To improve the climate footprint of school food in california

• $75,000

  Kitchen Table Advisors · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $75,000

  Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability · Fresno, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $75,000

  Mandela Partners · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $75,000

  Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2023

  To develop expanded fiscal sponsorship services for the nonprofit sector

• $75,000

  University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2023

  To support the new institute for agroecology

• $75,000

  As You Sow · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  To reduce the use of toxic pesticides in agriculture

• $75,000

  California State University Chico · Chico, CA · 2022

  To support the center for regenerative agriculture and resilient systems

• $75,000

  Carbon Cycle Institute · Petaluma, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $75,000

  Kitchen Table Advisors · Oakland, CA · 2022

  To provide business advice to small organic and regenerative farmers

• $75,000

  Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability · Fresno, CA · 2022

  To address health risks from water and air pollution, and industrial agriculture practices

• $75,000

  Mandela Partners · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For the project, expanding markets for mandela partners bipoc farmers network

• $75,000

  Movement Strategy Center · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For expanded fiscal sponsorship services for the nonprofit sector

• $75,000

  Sacred Heart Community Service · San Jose, CA · 2022

  For la mesa verde program

• $75,000

  Urban Tilth · Richmond, CA · 2022

  For general support of programs to build a more just and sustainable food system

• $55,000

  Food and Farm Communications Fund · Kansas City, MO · 2023

  For general support

• $55,000

  Food and Farm Communications Fund · Kansas City, MO · 2022

  For general support

• $50,000

  Black Farmer Fund · New York City, NY · 2024

  For general support

• $50,000

  Community Alliance With Family Farmers Foundation · Davis, CA · 2024

  Ecological farming program

• $50,000

  First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2024

  California tribal fund: local control of tribal food systems

• $50,000

  Harmony Project Bay Area · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  General operations

• $50,000

  Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Launching phase iv of the hunters point community toxic registry

• $50,000

  Intermusic Sf · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the musical grants program

• $50,000

  Justice Outside · Oakland, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $50,000

  Pie Ranch · Pescadero, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $50,000

  Tides Center and Hope Collaborative · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General operating support for hope collaborative

• $50,000

  Wishtoyo Foundation · Ventura, CA · 2024

  Restoring native food systems program

• $50,000

  Black Farmer Fund · New York City, NY · 2023

  For general support

• $50,000

  California Academy of Sciences · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For the bayview science institute

• $50,000

  California Rural Legal Assistance · Modesto, CA · 2023

  To protect pregnant farmworkers from pesticide exposure

• $50,000

  California State University San Marcos Foundation · San Marcos, CA · 2023

  To address the shortage of credentialed visual and performing arts teachers

• $50,000

  Calmatters · Sacramento, CA · 2023

  For the food and agriculture reporting initiative

• $50,000

  Community Alliance With Family Farmers · Davis, CA · 2023

  To support the ecological farming/climate smart farming program

• $50,000

  Hope Collaborative · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For a project to reduce industrial pollution and its health effects, improve access to healthy foods, and work with city planners to identify the health impacts of proposed development

• $50,000

  Hunters Point Biomonitoring Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To create a database of human health risks associated with the former us navy base in hunters point

• $50,000

  Intermusic Sf · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For the musical grants program

• $50,000

  Lawrence Hall of Science · Oakland, CA · 2023

  To pilot a program that helps environmental education nonprofits design and run ongoing, internal professional development programs for their educators

• $50,000

  Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  For the arts education collective

• $50,000

  Pie Ranch · Pescadero, CA · 2023

  For a project to provide young organic and agroecological farmers with access to land and business training

• $50,000

  Wishtoyo Foundation · Ventura, CA · 2023

  For the project, restoring native food systems, at the wishtoyo conservancy

• $50,000

  Agroecology Commons · El Sobrante, CA · 2022

  For a network of urban farms that provide education and training for agroecologists

• $50,000

  Black Farmer Fund · New York City, NY · 2022

  For an organization that provides loans, grants, and technical assistance to black farmers

• $50,000

  Community Alliance With Family Farmers · Davis, CA · 2022

  To support the ecological farming/climate smart farming program

• $50,000

  Ecological Farming Association · Soquel, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $50,000

  Global Alliance for the Future of Food · Dillon, CO · 2022

  For general support

• $50,000

  Intermusic Sf · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For the musical grant program

• $50,000

  Justice Outside · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For the outdoor educators institute

• $50,000

  Resource Renewal Institute · Fairfax, CA · 2022

  For fish in the fields

• $50,000

  The Sierra Fund · Nevada City, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $40,000

  Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Create Ca · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $40,000

  Luna Kids Dance · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $40,000

  New Century Chamber Orchestra · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Social Good Fund and Salted Roots · Richmond, CA · 2024

  General operating support

• $40,000

  Create Ca · Pasadena, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $40,000

  The Exploratorium · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For teacher professional development related to climate change and climate change adaptation

• $40,000

  California Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  For a landscape analysis and map of environmental education in california

• $40,000

  Exploratorium · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For classroom teacher professional development related to climate change education

• $40,000

  Luna Dance Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  For general support of work promoting dance education

• $40,000

  Naturebridge · Sausalito, CA · 2022

  For environmental educators professional development and employment model improvements

• $40,000

  San Francisco Symphony · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $35,000

  Edsource · Oakland, CA · 2024

  Arts education topical coverage in ca

• $35,000

  El Sistema Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  General support

• $35,000

  El Sistema USA Salinas · Salinas, CA · 2024

  General operations

• $35,000

  Enriching Lives Through Music · San Rafael, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $35,000

  Enriching Lives Through Music · San Rafael, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $35,000

  Brown Girl Surf · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $35,000

  Enriching Lives Through Music · San Rafael, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $35,000

  Generation Music and Arts Academy · San Lorenzo, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $35,000

  Harmony Project Bay Area · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $35,000

  League To Save Lake Tahoe · South Lake Tahoe, CA · 2022

  For regional planning

• $32,625

  Gardens of Golden Gate Park · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For a garden educator training program

• $32,250

  Sonoma Valley Education Foundation · Sonoma, CA · 2022

  For classroom teacher and teaching artist professional development as part of the dunbar elementary strategic arts plan

• $30,000

  Association of California Symphony Orchestras · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $30,000

  Attitudinal Healing Connection · Oakland, CA · 2024

  General operating support

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