Our Grantees

Partners in a better Bay Area

Episcopal Impact Fund partners with community-based nonprofits working to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty in the Bay Area. We fund changemaking nonprofits making an impact in our communities for our most vulnerable neighbors.

3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic

$45,000

3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic is a community-based nonprofit rooted in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood that provides integrated health, mental health, and housing services to young people ages 12–27. Through its medical clinic, counseling programs, youth development initiatives, and navigation center for transition-age youth, 3rd Street meets young people where they are — honoring their strengths, addressing the effects of systemic racism and economic inequality, and supporting their journey toward healthy, self-sufficient adulthood.

Housing Security

A Diamond in the Ruff

$5,000

A Diamond in the Ruff provides Independent Shared Living for single women and women with children in Alameda County. They offer more than just a place to live, but a supportive environment where women can build a better future.

Housing Security

Alameda Point Collaborative

$45,000

Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) provides permanent supportive housing and wraparound services to formerly homeless families and individuals in Alameda County. On 34 acres at the site of the former Alameda Naval Air Station, APC houses over 500 residents — nearly half of them children — offering on-site case management, counseling, workforce development, and social enterprise opportunities that help residents build stability and move toward lasting self-sufficiency.

Housing Security

All Saints Episcopal Church, San Leandro

$1,000

All Saints runs its Food Pantry, which serves 300–400 households (nearly 1,000 people) monthly via a client-choice model. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

All Souls Episcopal Parish, Berkeley

$1,750

All Souls runs the Open Door Dinner, a monthly community jambalaya meal serving about 120 people, plus deliveries to unhoused encampments and transitional-age youth housing. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside

$1,000

Christ Church Portola Valley & Woodside provides monthly dinners, toiletries, and winter clothing to residents of a Half Moon Bay homeless shelter, a ministry running since 2022. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Christ Episcopal Church, Alameda

$5,000

Christ Church operates a winter warming shelter (Dec–April, 25+ guests nightly) with the city, plus a year-round weekly shower, laundry, meal, and clothing program for unhoused individuals. [Focus area: Housing insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Church of the Good Shepherd, Berkeley

$1,000

Good Shepherd's Pan del Cielo Food Program provides weekly sack lunches to day laborers and unhoused neighbors and runs a weekly pantry serving dozens of households, sourced largely from Berkeley Food Network. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

City Hope San Francisco

$1,000

Providing a trusted gathering place and creatively offer as many elements of home as possible for our neighbors on the margins in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

East Bay Housing Organizations

$10,000

East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) brings together community members, public officials, nonprofit housing developers, residents, service providers, planners, professionals, and advocates. Collectively, we’re building a movement to ensure everyone has a safe, healthy, and affordable place to call home.

Rapid Response

Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, San Francisco

$2,500

Church of the Incarnation is launching a bilingual Senior Wellness Navigator program for isolated Sunset District seniors, especially Chinese American residents, offering wellness check-ins, medical companionship, and grief support. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Pleasant Hill

$2,500

Church of the Resurrection sustains Hillcrest Congregational Church's food and clothing pantry (open three mornings weekly) with volunteers, supplies, and food drives. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco

$4,500

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco — CHEFS (Conquering Homelessness through Employment in Food Services) program provides culinary job training, paid stipends, case management, and employment placement for people experiencing homelessness. Through hands-on kitchen experience and supportive coaching, participants gain industry credentials and pathways to stable work, advancing economic mobility and long-term housing stability.

Housing Security

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco

$10,000

Episcopal Community Services helps homeless and very low-income people obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.

Rapid Response

First Place for Youth

$1,000

First Place for Youth helps foster youth build the skills they need to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood.

Housing Security

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

$1,000

The Community Preschool at Grace Cathedral offers year-round, full-day, play-based early childhood education with a 1:5 teacher ratio, an anti-bias curriculum, and an intentional commitment to socio-economic and racial diversity. [Focus area: Education]

Poverty Relief

Grace Episcopal Church, Martinez

$5,000

Grace Episcopal’s Laundry Love with Grace provides free detergent, dryer sheets, and quarters twice monthly, serving about 35 people and 160 loads per event, mostly unhoused, working-poor, and senior residents. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Greater Richmond Interfaith Program

$50,000

Greater Richmond Interfaith Program (GRIP) is a multi-faith coalition of congregations that has served the West County region since 1966, growing from a community food pantry into a comprehensive multiservice agency. GRIP provides emergency family shelter, meals, case management, and long-term support to more than 15,000 homeless, hungry, and low-income individuals annually, helping those in need transition toward stability and self-sufficiency.

Housing Security

Hijas del Campo

$5,000

Hijas del Campo aims to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers, along with their families, to improve their daily life, working conditions, health, and safety. By emphasizing health, food, housing, and education, they support their goal that every farmworker has access to basic necessities.

Housing Security

Holy Child & St. Martin Episcopal Church, Daly City

$1,750

Holy Child & St. Martin operates a food pantry serving roughly 90 families in Daly City and 15 in Pacifica weekly. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Holy Family Episcopal Church, Half Moon Bay

$2,500

Holy Family Backpack Drive has, for 27 years, equipped Coastside students for school; in 2024 it outfitted 463 Cabrillo Unified students with backpacks, supplies, and books via Coastside Hope. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, Concord

$2,500

Holy Spirit supports students at an alternative high school with clothing, supplies, food cards, hygiene items, crisis assistance, and an on-campus thrift shop, reaching several hundred students annually. [Focus area: Education]

Poverty Relief

Hope Solutions

$2,500

Hope Solutions heals the effects of poverty and homelessness by providing permanent housing solutions and vital support services to vulnerable families and individuals.

Housing Security

Life Learning Academy

$50,000

Life Learning Academy (LLA) is a public charter high school on San Francisco's Treasure Island serving the Bay Area's most vulnerable youth — including those impacted by the justice system, housing instability, and trauma — in a small, supportive environment. Through academics, social-emotional learning, workforce development, on-campus housing, and college readiness programs, LLA gives students the tools and relationships they need to graduate and build a stable future.

Housing Security

Make It Home

$3,000

Make It Home helps Bay Area families and individuals transitioning out of crisis by using donated furniture to transform empty spaces into homes.

Housing Security

NAMI San Francisco

$10,000

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Francisco helps individuals with mental health conditions and their loved ones build better lives.

Rapid Response

Raphael House of San Francisco

$45,000

Raphael House of San Francisco provides families experiencing homelessness with a safe residential shelter, meals, intensive case management, career development, financial literacy education, and children's academic support. Founded in 1971 as San Francisco's first family homeless shelter, Raphael House walks alongside families — including the children in their care — until they achieve lasting housing stability and financial independence.

Housing Security

San Francisco SafeHouse

$45,000

San Francisco SafeHouse has been creating safe spaces for survivors since 1998, providing housing, advocacy, and wraparound services to women experiencing housing instability, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. Through its Hope Center, transitional housing, and Bridge Housing programs, SafeHouse offers survivors the stability, support, and community they need to heal and rebuild their lives.

Housing Security

Serenity House

$50,000

Serenity House Oakland empowers women in Oakland who have survived violence, addiction, homelessness, and incarceration to heal and rebuild their lives. Through case management, workforce development, financial literacy, wellness programming, and a community rooted in sisterhood, Serenity House helps women achieve lasting independence — with the belief that when women heal, entire communities grow stronger.

Housing Security

St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Albany

$2,000

St. Alban’s leads Albany Thrives Together, an all-volunteer group providing weekly bag lunches, free showers, and laundry to unhoused and at-risk community members, reaching dozens weekly. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

St. Anna's Episcopal Church, Brentwood

$1,000

St. Anna's supports Kimball Elementary, a Title 1 school, through its Mission Possible program, funding uniforms, supplies, and events over the past four years. [Focus area: Education]

Poverty Relief

St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Fremont

$1,000

St. Anne's partners with a local shelter to serve monthly dinner to 30–60 residents, funded entirely by congregant donations. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Francis Episcopal Church, San Francisco

$750

St. Francis partners with INTO Street Outreach, a "One Meal One Jacket" event, and Safe Harbor Shelter to serve unhoused neighbors in South San Francisco. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church, Novato

$750

St. Francis of Assisi’s Community Pantry offers client-choice food, hygiene products, diapers, pet food, and clothing twice weekly with no eligibility requirements, serving nearly 3,700 individuals in 2025. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. James' Episcopal Church, Fremont

$1,500

St. James runs a Blessing Bags ministry distributing essential supply bags to unhoused individuals across the East Bay, especially the Tri-City area, distributing 192 bags last year. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, San Francisco

$1,000

St. John the Evangelist hosts The Gubbio Project, offering unhoused neighbors daytime rest and services, and runs a monthly expanded coffee-hour meal for food-insecure parishioners, drawing 40–50 guests. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. John’s Episcopal Church, Oakland

$3,000

St. John’s has, for five years, mobilized 50+ volunteers weekly to distribute over 2,000 meal bags and seasonal clothing monthly to unhoused neighbors, in partnership with Mission for the Homeless and Operation Dignity. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco

$1,000

St. Luke’s sponsors the Inter-Faith Food Pantry, supplying protein, rice, pasta, and volunteers to distribute a week's groceries to about 300 San Francisco families every Saturday. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley

$1,000

St. Mark's has served hot meals and to-go lunches monthly for over 35 years, strengthening the parish's role as a neighborhood safety net. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto

$4,250

St. Mark's parishioners support Corrections Institutions Chaplaincy, providing spiritual care, writing and art groups, women's services, and visits to incarcerated individuals countywide, serving dozens weekly. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]

Poverty Relief

St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco

$5,000

St. Mary the Virgin’s Nueva Esperanza Accompaniment Team (NEAT) supports migrant families in San Francisco with housing, food, education, legal, and navigation help, currently serving multiple families. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]

Poverty Relief

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Oakland

$2,500

St. Paul’s operates the Pantry of Hope, distributing fresh groceries to roughly 100 families twice monthly, mostly non-parishioners. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, San Rafael

$5,000

St. Paul’s Death Row Ministry has, for 28 years, matched incarcerated individuals on Death Row with outside pen pals and provided yearly support packages of food, hygiene items, and supplies. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]

Poverty Relief

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Redwood City

$1,000

St. Peter's assembles and distributes monthly care kits with hygiene supplies to unhoused neighbors, largely through a local homeless services partner. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere

$1,750

St. Stephen’s Meal Bag Ministry has delivered 100 meal bags weekly to St. Vincent's Dining Room since April 2020 (29,700+ meals to date), using 27 volunteers and in-kind donations to keep costs at $2.15/meal. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Youth Employment Partnership

$50,000

Youth Employment Partnership (YEP) has been empowering Oakland youth since 1973, providing job training, job placement, education support, and comprehensive wraparound services to young people ages 14–24 impacted by poverty, the foster care and criminal justice systems, and lack of work experience. Each year, YEP helps more than 600 youth gain real skills, work experience, and a pathway to economic stability and independence.

Housing Security