Funding search · EIN 946065226 · Berkeley, CA

Gerbode Foundation

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

121
grants reported
$4.1M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$25,000
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.

What they fund

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Top recipients

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  • Fresh Approach3 grants · $275,000
  • Greenbelt Alliance2 grants · $175,000
  • Common Cause Education Fund3 grants · $155,000
  • Transgender Law Center2 grants · $150,000
  • Intersection for the Arts6 grants · $150,000
  • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights2 grants · $150,000
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice2 grants · $150,000
  • Root Rebound1 grant · $100,000
  • Asian American Futures1 grant · $100,000
  • Center for Empowered Politics Educa2 grants · $100,000

Giving over time

$1.6M
2022
$1.1M
2023
$1.4M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 121 grants.

  • $100,000

    Greenbelt Alliance · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Support of its Solano Together coalition.

  • $100,000

    Fresh Approach · Concord, CA · 2023

    General Support

  • $100,000

    Asian American Futures · Irvine, CA · 2022

    Support of Activate California's Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Narrative and Power Project

  • $100,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice · Washington, DC · 2022

    General Support

  • $100,000

    Fresh Approach · Concord, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $100,000

    Root Rebound · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $75,000

    Fresh Approach · Concord, CA · 2024

    General Support

  • $75,000

    Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General Support

  • $75,000

    Ella Baker Center for Human Rights · Oakland, CA · 2023

    General Support

  • $75,000

    Greenbelt Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General Support

  • $75,000

    Transgender Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2023

    General Support

  • $75,000

    Ella Baker Center for Human Rights · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $60,000

    Common Cause Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

    Support of its Media & Democracy Program in California

  • $60,000

    Common Cause Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

    Support of its Media & Democracy Program in California

  • $50,000

    Asian Americans Advancing Justice · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General Support

  • $50,000

    Independent Arts Media · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of El Timpano's work.

  • $50,000

    Malama Makua · Honolulu, HI · 2024

    Support of its Aloha ?

  • $50,000

    New Breath Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General Support

  • $50,000

    Center for Empowered Politics Educa · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Support of its Bay Rising Project

  • $50,000

    Trust for Public Land · Honolulu, HI · 2023

    Support for work in Hawaii

  • $50,000

    Center for Empowered Politics Educa · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Support of its Bay Rising Project

  • $50,000

    Maplight · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $50,000

    People for Open Space Incgreenbelt · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Alliance for Girls · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Support of its SF Bay Area work

  • $40,000

    Center for Media Justice · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Chinese for Affirmative Action · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of Lavender Phoenix's work in the Bay Area

  • $40,000

    Coleman Advocates for Children Yout · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General Support

  • $40,000

    East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Support of the goals of the Fund for California's Future.

  • $40,000

    Hawaii Peoples Fund · Honolulu, HI · 2024

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Community Music Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Independent Arts Media · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of El Timpano's work.

  • $40,000

    Sonoma Ecology Center · Eldridge, CA · 2023

    Sonoma Valley Collaborative Project

  • $40,000

    Alliance for Girls · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Baykeeper · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Center for Applied Research Solutio · Santa Rosa, CA · 2022

    California Mentoring Partnership's Racial Justice in Mentoring Initiative

  • $40,000

    Center for Media Justice · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Coleman Children and Youth Services · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Foodcorps · Portland, OR · 2022

    Support of its work in San Francisco

  • $40,000

    Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law · Honolulu, HI · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    The Center for Cultural Innovation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Support of the East Bay Individuals in the Arts Relief Fund for Individuals in the Arts

  • $40,000

    The Working Group · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $40,000

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of its Building Blocks for Kids Program

  • $40,000

    Urban Habitat Program · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $35,000

    Common Cause Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    Support of its Media & Democracy Program in California

  • $32,500

    Dancers' Group · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of Mud Water Theatre's commission and production of a new work by My-Linh Le

  • $30,000

    Center for Applied Research Solutio · Santa Rosa, CA · 2024

    California Mentoring Partnership's Racial Justice in Mentoring Initiative

  • $30,000

    Chinese for Affirmative Action · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of Lavender Phoenix's work in the Bay Area

  • $30,000

    Communities for a Better Environmen · Huntington Park, CA · 2024

    Support of its Northern California work

  • $25,000

    Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new dance work by Sarah Crowell.

  • $25,000

    Audium Incorporated · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Tossi Long.

  • $25,000

    Cubacaribe · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new dance work by Shefali Shah.

  • $25,000

    Dance Brigade · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    New Dance Work by Adia Whitaker

  • $25,000

    Dancers' Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of Duniya Dance and Drum Company's commission and production of a new work by Joti Singh.

  • $25,000

    Diamano Coura West African Dance Co · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new dance work by Ibrahima Ouseynou Diouf.

  • $25,000

    Flyaway Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Xoa Asa.

  • $25,000

    Hawaii Community Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2024

    Support of its Hookele Non-profit Leadership Awards.

  • $25,000

    Hoi Hoi Ea · Kaneohe, HI · 2024

    Support of its Aloha ?

  • $25,000

    Ka Ala Farm · Waianae, HI · 2024

    Support of its Aloha ?

  • $25,000

    Magic Theatre · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new dance work by SAMMAY Peaflor Dizon.

  • $25,000

    Manilatown Heritage Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Caroline Cabading.

  • $25,000

    Musical Traditions · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Music Project by Liza Mezzacappa

  • $25,000

    Oakland Theater Project · Oakland, CA · 2024

    New Theater Work by Lisa Ramirez

  • $25,000

    San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Comp · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new dance work by Tania Santiago.

  • $25,000

    Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new dance work by Suhaila Salimpour.

  • $25,000

    Sozo Impact · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Support of its commission and production of a new work by Babatunji Johnson.

  • $25,000

    Theatre Bay Area · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Support of its CA$H Sustains program.

  • $25,000

    Artists in Motion Bay Area · Daly City, CA · 2023

    Support of a New Dance Work by Patrick Cruz

  • $25,000

    Audium Incorporated · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Tossi Long.

  • $25,000

    Bindlestiff Studio · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    New Theater Work by Golda Sargento

  • $25,000

    Brava Theater Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new theater work by Kat Evasco. (2 of 2 pymts.)

  • $25,000

    Commonwealth Club of California · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Climate One Project

  • $25,000

    Flyaway Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Xoa Asa.

  • $25,000

    Golden Thread Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    New Theater Work by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh.

  • $25,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of The Living Word project

  • $25,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of Eye Zen's commission and production of a new theater work by Marvin K. White. (2 of 2)

  • $25,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Campo Santo's Commission and Production of a New Theater Work

  • $25,000

    Jess Curtis Gravity · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of a New Dance Work by Jose Esteban Abad

  • $25,000

    Magic Theatre · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    New Theater Production by Christopher Chen

  • $25,000

    Mahea Uchiyama Center for Intl Danc · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Mahealani Uchiyama.

  • $25,000

    Manilatown Heritage Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Caroline Cabading.

  • $25,000

    New Performance Traditions · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by Van-Ahn Vo.

  • $25,000

    Noorani Dance · Menlo Park, CA · 2023

    New Dance Work by Farah Yasmeen Shaikh

  • $25,000

    Oaklash · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Support of the commission and production of a new work by OBSIDIENNE OBSURD and Paul Wiancko.

  • $25,000

    Sozo Impact · Oakland, CA · 2023

    Support of Alphabet Rockers' commission and production of a new work by Kaitlin McGaw & Tommy Soulati Shepherd.

  • $25,000

    Womens Audio Mission · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Support of its commission and production of a new work by Diana Gameros.

  • $25,000

    Bindlestiff Studio · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of the commission and production of a new theater work by Golda Sargento. (2 of 2 pymts.)

  • $25,000

    Brava Theater Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of a new theater work by Kat Evasco

  • $25,000

    Chinese for Affirmative Action · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of Lavender Phoenix's work in the Bay Area

  • $25,000

    Crowded Fire Theater Company · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    New Theater Work by Anna Moench

  • $25,000

    Golden Thread Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of the commission and production of a new theater work by Adam Ashraf Elsayigh. (2 of 2)

  • $25,000

    Hawaii Alliance of Progressive Acti · Kapaa, HI · 2022

    General Support

  • $25,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of Eye Zen's commission and production of a new theater work by Marvin K. White

  • $25,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of Eugenie Chan Theater Project's commission and production of a new theater work

  • $25,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of Campo Santo's commission and production of a new theater work by Marc Anthony Thompson

  • $25,000

    Magic Theatre · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Support of the commission and production of a new theater work by A.M. Smiley

  • $25,000

    Mahea Uchiyama Center for Intl Danc · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    New Dance Work by Meridith Kawekiu Aki

  • $25,000

    Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latina · San Jose, CA · 2022

    New Theater Production by Lisa Marie Rollins

  • $25,000

    Oakland Theater Project · Oakland, CA · 2022

    New Theater Work by Lisa Ramirez

  • $25,000

    Social Justice Collaborative · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    General Support

  • $25,000

    The Lab Sf · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    New Dance Work by Indira Allegra

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.