Tipping Point Impact Report 2020

Our research shows that even before the pandemic, more than 50% of people in the Bay Area didn’t have enough money to pay bills. With unemployment increasing during the pandemic, life for many became even more precarious.

Direct Impact Last Year

people in the Bay Area connected with our grantees last year

Total Invested

July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020

Housing

Early
Childhood

Education

Employment

Chronic Homelessness Initiative

Better Futures for Foster Youth

Relief Efforts* + Research Projects

* Emergency relief funds outside core portfolio

In addition to providing direct, unrestricted funding to our portfolio organizations, we invest in strengthening grantee impact, scaling our impact through systems change, and responding to crisis.

Strengthening Impact

Building the Capacity of Our Grantees

Scaling Impact

Changing Public Systems

Responding to Crisis

Targeted Approaches in Times of Need

Strengthening Impact

Building the Capacity of Our Grantees

Scaling Impact

Changing Public Systems

Responding to Crisis

Targeted Approaches in Times of Need

We hold ourselves accountable to making measurable progress toward a Bay Area where everyone will have the opportunity to prosper and where one’s background and identity do not predetermine success or failure.

An Urgent Crisis and Rapid Response

We build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions. When shelter-in-place began, we acted fast, doubled down, and enhanced our support of Bay Area communities in key ways:

Provided emergency funds to our current grantees so they could ensure families had cash for groceries and rent, as well as phones and computers so they could stay connected to school and services.

Responded to critical gaps found outside our issue areas by providing funds to organizations that serve neighborhoods facing food insecurity and undocumented families denied access to federal aid.

Even though COVID-19 changed everything, it didn’t slow us down. Because of the tenacity of our grantees and the generosity of our donors, from March 13 to June 30, 2020, we distributed $4.7 million in COVID-19 emergency response funds.

Aerial view of houses and cars driving down the street of a residential neighborhood in Oakland California with the city’s skyline in the background.

Strategy

We invest in organizations that connect individuals and families to stable housing and services across the Bay Area and in innovative housing solutions to end homelessness.

Last year, 30,000 people in the Bay Area experienced homelessness.

people moved into permanent housing or avoided homelessness with services and support from Tipping Point grantees

Strengthening Impact

Building the Capacity of Our Grantees

Photo Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A student smiles pointing to the door of a newly constructed dorm room.

24 students have a safe place to call home

Grantee —

Life Learning Academy

Life Learning Academy is a public charter high school serving young people who have struggled in other academic settings—over half of all its students don’t have stable housing. To allow students to focus on learning, the school decided to build housing on the campus itself. Tipping Point’s support helped them develop a fundraising and communications strategy resulting in $3.5 million in donations. A grand opening of the dorms was attended by Mayor London Breed and profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle. The first of its kind in the nation, today the dorms give 24 students a safe place to call home.

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