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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

$50,000

3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic serves young people, ages 12-27, living across San Francisco. They provide housing and ensure that these youth have equitable access to healthcare, employment, and educational opportunities.

Housing Security

APA Family Support Services

$10,000

APA Family Support Services supports low-income, immigrant, and mixed-status families with services like safety planning, emergency food, transportation, and crisis support.

Rapid Response

All Saints Episcopal Church, San Leandro

$5,000

All Saints Episcopal Church operates a robust twice-monthly food pantry that distributes three large bags of groceries per household to local neighbors. Each food pantry is currently frequented by nearly 400 households per month.​ [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

All Souls Episcopal Church, Berkeley

$2,500

All Souls’ Open Door Dinner program combats food insecurity by preparing and delivering a hot jambalaya meal each month to about 130 unhoused neighbors in Berkeley. In addition to meals, the program provides essential supplies such as cooking fuel, tents, clothing, and hygiene items, ensuring consistent support for people living in poverty. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Art with Elders

$1,500

Using the power of art, creativity, and community to enrich the journey of aging. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Asian Women’s Shelter

$50,000

Asian Women’s Shelter promotes the social, economic, and political self-determination of women and all survivors of violence and oppression. The organization's strategy integrates culturally grounded and language-accessible crisis lines, emergency shelter, transitional housing, community engagement and violence prevention programs, training and education programs, systems and policy advocacy, and cultural change initiatives.

Housing Security

Bayview Mission, San Francisco

$3,000

Bayview Mission is a neighborhood hub in San Francisco, providing safety net items and summer camp resources to members of the Bayview community. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

California Pacific Medical Center (Mission/Bernal campus)

$358,900

The Perinatal Mental Healthcare Program provides critical psychiatric and psychological care to pregnant women and new mothers. By embedding this program within existing labor and delivery services, we ensure that women receive the care they need in a familiar and trusted setting. The Pediatric Mental Healthcare Program brings onsite, outpatient mental health care resources to low-income children and their families. Our grant enables these services to be offered free of charge to all patients. [Focus area: Healthcare]

Poverty Relief

Christ Episcopal Church, Alameda

$8,000

Christ Church Alameda provides shelter, showers, toiletries, meals, and a network of support to individuals experiencing homelessness in Alameda.​

Housing Security

Church of the Resurrection, Pleasant Hill

$4,400

The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection provides critical volunteer hours, supplies, and food drives to sustain Hillcrest Congregational Church’s long-running food pantry, which served more than 6,300 people with food assistance in 2024 alone. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Diamond in the Ruff

$40,000

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

East Bay Children’s Law Offices

$5,000

East Bay Children’s Law Offices helps integrate essential social support/mental health services to accompany their legal advocacy services for largely court-involved youth of color in the child welfare/family policing system youth.

Poverty Relief

Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Berkeley

$1,500

Pan del Cielo, a ministry of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in West Berkeley, directly addresses food insecurity by providing weekly sack lunches to about 120 unhoused and day laborer neighbors and operating a Friday food pantry. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco

$1,350

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.

Housing Security

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

Global Communication, Education and Art

$10,000

Global Communication, Education and Art helps immigrants from Africa with housing support services, legal assistance, employment help, and other support services through a community-based model.

Rapid Response

Good Samaritan Family Resource Center

$10,000

Good Samaritan Family Resource Center helps immigrant families in San Francisco access education, health services, and social support to build better futures.

Rapid Response

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

$1,000

The Community Preschool at Grace Cathedral provides a full-day, year-round early childhood program for children ages 3–5, preparing them for kindergarten and lifelong learning. [Focus area: Education]

Poverty Relief

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

$3,000

The Jail Ministry creates recordings of incarcerated parents reading books to their children, and provides those recordings to their families. [Focus area: Justice and Safety]

Poverty Relief

Grace Episcopal Church, Martinez

$5,000

Laundry Love with Grace provides a critical safety net for people living in poverty by covering the high cost of doing laundry—an essential but often unaffordable need for unhoused neighbors, low-income workers, and seniors. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Hijas del Campo

$50,000

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 and St. Martin Episcopal Church, Daly City

$2,000

Holy Child and St. Martin Church operates a twice-weekly food pantry in Daly City, providing essential groceries to as many as 280 families each month. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

Holy Family Episcopal Church, Half Moon Bay

$5,000

For 27 years, Holy Family Episcopal Church’s Backpack Drive has provided a vital safety net for Coastside children, ensuring that students from low-income families start school prepared and on equal footing with their peers. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, Concord

$3,500

Holy Spirit Episcopal Church provides a vital safety net for at-risk students at Olympic High School, an alternative school where more than 80% of students are economically disadvantaged and many face homelessness, unstable home situations, or the challenges of young parenthood. [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

Human Investment Project, Inc. (HIP Housing)

$30,000

HIP Housing supports individuals and families in San Mateo County seeking to find or remain in affordable housing. Their work seeks to prevent displacement and homelessness, maximize and preserve existing housing stock, and equip individuals with the support they need to stabilize their financial situation.

Housing Security

Larkin Street Youth Services

$1,000

Larkin Street Youth Services is a leading nonprofit organization in San Francisco dedicated to supporting youth experiencing homelessness. Through a comprehensive range of services—including emergency and long-term housing, health and wellness care, education, and job training—Larkin Street helps young people build the skills and stability needed to achieve independence and well-being.

Housing Security

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services

$10,000

Lyon-Martin Community Health Services stands apart as the only integrated healthcare resource by and for Transgender, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, and Intersex (TGI) communities in San Francisco.

Rapid Response

Make It Home

$2,500

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

Marin Foster Care Association

$2,500

Marin Foster Care Association provides comprehensive resources that inspire and empower the Foster Care Community.

Housing Security

New Creation Home Ministries

$1,000

Providing temporary housing to women experiencing violence, addiction, and homelessness and their children.

Housing Security

Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California

$40,000

Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH) focuses on scalable solutions, from utilizing unused land for development to advancing regional housing finance measures. NPH has a successful history of advancing affordable housing in the Bay Area and positions itself as a coalition builder – fosters collaboration among policymakers, developers, and community stakeholders. It championed SB 4 in 2023, unlocking over 171,000 acres of land owned by religious organizations and nonprofits for affordable housing development. [Focus area: Advocacy]

Housing Security

North Marin Community Services

$10,000

North Marin Community Services empowers youth, adults, and families in our diverse community to achieve well-being, growth, and success.

Rapid Response

Oakland Elizabeth House

$50,000

Oakland Elizabeth House offers a residence other than women and children who have experienced the poverty of homelessness, violence, and addiction. They support the women and children in their transition to independence by empowering them with the tools to rebuild their lives. They provide housing, education, employment, and health and wellness resources.

Housing Security

Ohlhoff Recovery Programs

$5,650

Providing support for the expansion of the Women's Residential Program. [Focus area: Healthcare]

Poverty Relief

Project Avary

$10,000

Project Avary is a national leader in supporting children with incarcerated parents.

Rapid Response

San Francisco SafeHouse

$5,000

San Francisco SafeHouse works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services, advocacy, and community education.

Housing Security

Sojourn Chaplaincy

$32,413

Providing spiritual care and emotional support to some of the most marginalized residents of San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco

$2,000

St. Aidan’s anchors its neighborhood outreach in food ministries, including a weekly food pantry that serves 150–200 families in a farmer’s market style, as well as community meals like the monthly Diamond Diners luncheon, an annual Thanksgiving dinner, and seasonal holiday gatherings. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Albany

$2,500

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church partners with Albany Thrives Together to provide essential safety net services for unhoused and low-income neighbors in Albany. Through food, hygiene, and advocacy, they help ensure that vulnerable neighbors have access to the basic necessities that sustain health and dignity. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Francis Episcopal Church, San Francisco

$1,000

St. Francis Episcopal Church partners with local ministries to serve unhoused neighbors. In collaboration with INTO Street Outreach, they helped provide 600+ winter jackets, scarves, and meals at a December 2024 “One Meal One Jacket” event. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church, Novato

$1,000

St. Francis Community Pantry provides free food, hygiene products, diapers, pet food, and seasonal clothing to anyone in need, without eligibility requirements. The Pantry serves unhoused individuals, low-income families, seniors, and others experiencing food insecurity. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. John’s Episcopal Church, Oakland

$4,000

St. John’s VISION Program has, for five years, built steady relationships with unhoused individuals by preparing and sharing weekly meal bags and seasonal clothing. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco

$1,000

St. Luke’s is a sponsor congregation of the Inter-Faith Food Pantry, which provides a critical neighborhood food source for San Francisco families in need, distributing a week’s worth of groceries to around 300 households each Saturday. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Berkeley

$1,500

Hot Meals for the Hungry at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church has provided freshly prepared, nutritious meals to community members in need for over 35 years. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto

$5,000

St. Mark’s Palo Alto parishioners are actively involved in Corrections Institutions Chaplaincy, which provides spiritual and therapeutic support to incarcerated people in Santa Clara County, many of whom are disadvantaged and living in poverty. [Focus area: Justice and safety]

Poverty Relief

St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco

$5,000

Through their Nueva Esperanza Accompaniment Team (NEAT), St. Mary’s accompanies migrant families in San Francisco, helping them establish independent, dignified lives while providing support for housing, food, education, legal services, and navigation of local systems. [Focus area: Justice and safety]

Poverty Relief

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, San Rafael

$5,000

St. Paul’s Death Row Prison Ministry develops ongoing, nonjudgmental relationships between St. Paul’s volunteers and individuals on Death Row in California. [Focus area: Justice and safety]

Poverty relief

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere

$2,000

St. Stephen’s Meal Bag Ministry provides weekly food to neighbors facing food insecurity in Marin County. Volunteers deliver 100 meal bags to St. Vincent’s Dining Room, fresh bread and produce to low-income families. [Focus area: Food insecurity]

Poverty Relief

St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Danville

$1,000

Parishioners at St. Timothy’s work with Contra Costa Interfaith Coalition (CCIC), which provides critical safety net services by supplying supplemental food and essential household items to individuals and families transitioning from homelessness, shelters, or hospitals. [Focus area: Safety net]

Poverty Relief

Tiny Village Spirit

$10,000

Tiny Village Spirit creates dedicated emergency housing units to serve young people, ages 18 to 24, in Richmond, CA.

Rapid Response

Youth Employment Partnership

$51,000

Youth Employment Partnership operates one of the highest-performing youth workforce development programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. YEP’s mission is to improve the employment and education outcomes for Oakland youth and young adults impacted by poverty, the justice system, foster care, homelessness, school underachievement and other barriers to work by providing transformative job training, critical skill building, and contextualized education paired with hands-on work experience in a living classroom.

Housing Security

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