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We advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions so one day everyone in the Bay Area can prosper.

Cultivating Community Because We Are
More Powerful Together

Our team of experts cultivates community with nonprofits, cutting-edge leaders, partners, and our supporters at large because we know together, we can create a Bay Area where everyone prospers. We approach it with gratitude, holding ourselves accountable to our community, and putting equity at the center because background and identity should never pre-determine opportunity.

Our Mission

We build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions.

Our Vision

One day, everyone in the Bay Area will have the opportunity to prosper.

Our Values

We cultivate community because we know we are more powerful together.

We practice gratitude.

We hold ourselves accountable to achieving impact for and with the communities we serve.

We relentlessly pursue equity because one’s background and identity should not pre-determine one’s opportunities.

Our People + Values at Work Since 2005

Careers

Join our team of experts making the Bay Area a place where everyone can prosper.

Diversity, Equity + Inclusion

To do our work, we must acknowledge and address the connection between race and poverty. We continually strive to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into every aspect of our strategy.

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We build trusted relationships with our grantees to amplify our collective impact in the Bay Area.

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Katherine Georgiev
Sr. Dir. of Grantmaking +
Capacity Building

Our Impact

Together, we can make the Bay Area better for all of us by investing in solutions that create transformative pathways out
of poverty.

IMPACT REPORTS
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From Our Board + Leadership Council

Tipping Point’s commitment to gratitude, accountability, and equity are vitally important for building partnerships that are changing people’s lives and systems day in and day out. It feels good to be part of a community that believes everyone in the Bay Area deserves a chance to prosper—and is taking bold action to make it happen.

Brandi Hudson, Community Leader + Advocate Tipping Point Leadership Council Chair
Brandi Hudson, Community Leader + Advocate
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From Our Board + Leadership Council

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
Samir Kaul, Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures

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