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Advancing the most promising poverty-fighting solutions.

We're more than a grantmaker. By vetting, investing, and testing solutions to poverty, we can ensure our neighbors get the help they need today, and create conditions for a better tomorrow.

Our Strategy

Find + Fund Promising Solutions

We rigorously vet every investment we make, ensuring that each dollar funds the strongest approaches to
combatting poverty in our region.

Our Board covers all our operating costs, so every dollar
donated goes back to our community.

MEET OUR GRANTEES

Partner + Strengthen Nonprofits for Maximum Impact

Grantmaking isn’t one-sized-fits-all. Once a nonprofit enters our grantee portfolio, we partner with them to identify areas for growth and provide tailored support to help amplify their impact.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR CAPACITY BUILDING

Investigate + Change for a Better Tomorrow

We investigate the conditions that keep our neighbors in poverty, so we can uplift policies and advocacy organizations that help remove those barriers to prosperity.

Research guides our grantmaking strategy, ensuring every dollar we invest is backed by the latest learnings from the field.

EXPLORE OUR RESEARCH

Our Impact Areas

Housing

We invest in solutions that move people experiencing homelessness into safe, stable housing, and prevent homelessness in first place.

Education

We invest in solutions that help to ensure all students, especially first-generation, low-income students, have the support they need to earn their degrees.

Employment

We invest in solutions that support workers to acquire the skills, credentials, and experience to progress in their careers and achieve wages that support their families over time.

Early Childhood

We invest in solutions that support families, caregivers, and children prenatal to 3 to improve developmental outcomes, providing an essential foundation for their future.

Why We Invest

Why We Invest

As a longtime supporter of Tipping Point, I feel compelled to continue my parents’ legacy of helping people who need it most. Tipping Point listens to those in our region who have not been heard and works to elevate their voices as part of building solutions.

Ronnie Lott, NFL Hall of Famer + entrepreneurTipping Point Board Member

Why We Invest

I trust Tipping Point to identify, partner with, and elevate organizations working to alleviate and prevent poverty. I love being part of and learning from a community of people who share a deep commitment to making the Bay Area a better place for everyone.

Carolyn Press ChathamTipping Point Leadership Council Member

Why We Invest

Not only do we feel great about supporting inspiring Bay Area leaders through Tipping Point, I have learned a lot from the way Tipping Point conducts due diligence and provides capacity-building support to grantees. We have applied many of these practices to our own grantmaking and have funded Tipping Point grantees through our foundation.

Charlie Wolfson, Executive Director, Arrow ImpactTipping Point Board Member

Why We Invest

Through its comprehensive model, Tipping Point acts as a force multiplier in advancing solutions to poverty. Not only do they fund best-in-class organizations, but they also have deep expertise in early childhood, education, employment, and housing and work closely with leaders to widen their impact and promote lasting change. By leveraging the work of a broad spectrum of grantees and partners across sectors, Tipping Point achieves far more than any nonprofit could alone.

Samir Kaul, Founding Partner, Khosla VenturesFormer Tipping Point Leadership Council member

Our Work in Action

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