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.
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.
Join our team of experts making the Bay Area a place where everyone can prosper.
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.
We build trusted relationships with our grantees to amplify our collective impact in the Bay Area.
Katherine Georgiev
Sr. Dir. of Grantmaking +
Capacity Building
Together, we can make the Bay Area better for all of us by investing in solutions that create transformative pathways out of poverty.
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.
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.
Powerful leaders, strong solutions, everyday heroes. Read stories from our community.
Grantee First Place for Youth first helped Charvette find stability as a foster youth. 17 years later, and thanks to their support, Charvette has built a successful career and a thriving life for her and her family.
Omar Carrera, former client and now CEO of Canal Alliance, shares his journey of transformation with Tipping Point's support.
Tipping Point grantee provides quality, low-cost childcare that builds strong foundations for Bay Area children and their families.
Bay Area nonprofit Booker T. Washington Community Service Center provides housing solutions for the community.
We invest in solutions that help workers get well-paying, sustainable jobs. Hear how Tipping Point grantee JobTrain helped Adriana get on career path with wages that help her and her family thrive.
Our youth homelessness initiative helps Bay Area youth move from homeless to housed. Watch how advocates connect young people with services and stable housing.
Before David helped youth move from homeless to housed, he struggled with housing insecurity himself. Watch how peer mentors connect young people with the services they need to move into stable housing.
“To see the parents find their energy and enthusiasm, helping them find a place in the community to share their talents––that’s what this work is all about.” Charlie Cervantes shares his work empowering fathers in their child’s development.
“Becoming a nurse had been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid.” Opportunity Junction helped Linh land a job in nursing through their innovative career coaching model, developed in partnership with Tipping Point.
“Tipping Point is the most informed, supportive, and engaged funder we have,” one grantee respondent said in a survey to help us evaluate and improve Tipping Point’s impact on Bay Area nonprofits.
