Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Berkeley, California

82
foundations with a Berkeley address
$137.9M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
13
say they accept unsolicited
$5,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 82 foundations that gave a Berkeley, California address on their tax filing — 74 private foundations and 8 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $137.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 13 of them (16%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Berkeley foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 82 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Berkeley, California
Carestar FoundationAccepts$107,933$5.3M$10,000–$750,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane FndnAccepts$75,000$1.7M$25,000–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gaia FundAccepts$5,000$1.6M$500–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gerbode FoundationAccepts$25,000$1.4M$2,500–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
PD Jackson Family FoundationAccepts$6,250$457,000$1,000–$125,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Margoes FoundationAccepts$37,500$160,000$35,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Furthur FoundationAccepts$4,000$122,000$2,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Schwallie FoundationAccepts$1,000$82,600$50–$60,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Jean and Alvin SternliebAccepts$2,000$65,000$500–$5,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Working Assumptions FoundationAccepts$7,500$60,000One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Esherick-Ye FoundationAccepts$4,850$51,275$1,100–$6,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Kadri Charitable FoundationAccepts$2,500$37,500$300–$11,700FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Farallon Islands FoundationAccepts$14,730$30,000$3,000–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Berkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community FundFederationNot stated—Over $5k only$394,666—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Remedy Alliance IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$10,620Over $5k only$160,700$5,400–$106,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Earth Innovation InstitutePublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$127,664—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bill Graham Memorial FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$12,500Over $5k only$118,500$10,000–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Berkeley Public Library FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$52,426Over $5k only$104,851$41,351–$63,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Poets in NeedPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$42,400—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bridge Association of Realtors Community FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$17,170Over $5k only$20,670One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Akvo Foundation USAPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$11,654—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Astera InstituteInvitation only$18.9M$83.3M$50,000–$45.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jonathan Logan Family FoundationInvitation only$75,000$10.1M$2,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fund for NonviolenceInvitation only$50,000$9.5M$10,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lafetra FoundationInvitation only$50,000$2.8M$4,500–$713,142FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

57 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.