We fund organizations in four impact areas, as well as project investments.
Investment Strategy by Impact Area
Tipping Point is committed to leveraging our resources to achieve maximum impact. To do this, we target our investments in four key impact areas––in addition to key project investments––and select grantees based on alignment with specific criteria.
We also prioritize organizations led by people of color, recognizing that Black, Latinx, AAPI, and indigenous-led organizations have historically been underinvested in by philanthropy.
Bay Area Regional Housing
- We fund direct-service organizations that help our neighbors experiencing homelessness or those who are close to becoming homeless.
San Francisco Housing
- We fund direct-service organizations and systems-change efforts that help our neighbors experiencing homelessness or those who are close to becoming homeless.
- We have three priority areas for funding: (1) targeted homelessness prevention, (2) supporting Black and Latinx San Franciscans at risk of or experiencing homelessness, and (3) accountability, data and transparency of the homelessness response system.
Youth Homelessness
- We fund direct services organizations which help youth experiencing homelessness transition into housing and prevent those facing housing insecurity from falling into homelessness.
- We fund system change efforts to strengthen the ability of communities to address and end youth homelessness.
- Current funding priorities include: (1) Innovative prevention models, (2) interventions which include both workforce and housing/prevention services, (3) increasing access to services, and (4) ensuring homelessness systems are meeting the needs of transitional-aged youth.
Investment Focus
- We fund direct service organizations that help low-income pregnant people, parents and caregivers, and their infants and toddlers.
- We prioritize organizations in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara Counties, where there are the highest levels of poverty among young children and/or the least services.
Outside of Our Investment Focus
While we recognize that many organizations meaningfully contribute to our community and share our same vision, we are not currently prioritizing organizations within the following focus and/or geographic areas to join our portfolio:
- Family resource centers without an intensive case management component, non-Early Head Start providers, or emergency services.
- Organizations that provide primarily “light touch” services, such as events and workshops.
- Organizations in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin Counties
Investment Focus
- At this time, we focus our funding on direct service organizations that support:
- Low-income high school students to grow the skills needed to thrive in college
- First-generation college-goers to persist and complete their Bachelor’s Degree
- In addition, we prioritize organizations working in support of systemic change, which we define as building the capacity of school systems and providing services for students furthest from opportunity at scale.
Outside of Our Investment Focus
While we recognize that many organizations meaningfully contribute to our community and share our same vision, we are not currently prioritizing organizations within the following focus and/or geographic areas to join our portfolio:
- Organizations that are not focused on post-secondary success for young adults and first-generation college students.
- Organizations that have not yet completed, at minimum, a pilot version of their program.
Investment Focus
- We fund direct service organizations that provide occupational skills training for career-track, in-demand quality jobs.
- We fund policy and other systems change efforts that strengthen and expand skills training and paid work-based learning opportunities for job seekers and workers who have been held back by structural barriers of discrimination.
- We fund organizations that collect and analyze data including program completion, job placements, wages and retention; and dis-aggregate outcomes to address inequities.
- We prioritize organizations preparing people to enter fields where they are underrepresented to achieve greater gender and racial equity within well-paying industries.
Outside of Our Investment Focus
While we recognize that many organizations meaningfully contribute to our community and share our same vision, we are not currently prioritizing organizations within the following focus and/or geographic areas to join our portfolio:
- Training and work experience for youth still enrolled in high school.
- Entrepreneurship and business development.
- Career exposure, job readiness and soft skills training, and career coaching as individual offerings.
We value your interest in Tipping Point.
If you believe your organization is in line with the criteria of one of our impact areas, we invite you to fill out the interest form. A member of our team will reach out to you if we are actively searching for new portfolio grantees or projects.
Visit our contact page to get in touch with members of our team.
