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 2022–2024. 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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Funding pattern
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Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- 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
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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