The Concrete Rose Community Foundation concentrates its giving on racial equity and Black opportunity-building, especially programs that create tech/STEM pathways, entrepreneurship training, and youth development for Black and other underserved communities. Grants favor organizations that combine skills training, college/career access, and community empowerment rather than purely service delivery, and many recipients are repeat grantees focused on systemic-inequality solutions.
A defining pattern of The Concrete Rose Community Foundation is its repeated support for organizations building Black opportunity through tech pathways, entrepreneurship, and youth development. The foundation’s recent awards show a clear preference for groups working on systemic inequality through skills training and community advancement, rather than short-term services. Black Product received the largest recent grant at $55,000 in 2024, while Color Stack and Dev Color each received multiple grants across 2023 and 2024, signaling sustained interest in Black-led developer and career-building ecosystems. Its grant list also includes recurring support for Color Wave in Berkeley and for Hbcuvu, which suggests the foundation often backs organizations more than once when their missions align with its equity focus. Alongside these tech-and-career grants, the foundation has funded youth-serving and college-access organizations such as Hidden Genius Project Inc, Digital Nest Inc, Summer Search, and Takeoff Institute. The overall picture is of a public charity using relatively targeted grants to support Black-led and underserved-community initiatives that connect learning, access, and long-term opportunity.
In Black-led tech workforce development, the foundation gave $50,000 to Color Stack in Baldwin, NY for addressing the impact of systemic inequality, and another $50,000 to Dev Color in Menlo Park, CA for the same purpose. It also backed Color Wave in Berkeley, CA with $50,000 in 2024 and additional awards of $44,324 and $25,000. For hands-on STEM and engineering exposure, it supported Hidden Genius Project Inc in Oakland, CA with $15,000, Project Invent in San Francisco, CA with $10,000 in 2024 and $7,500 in 2023, and Hbcuvu in Richmond, CA with $25,000 and $10,000. The foundation also gave to Digital Nest Inc in Watsonville, CA with $15,000 and $10,000. On college and leadership pathways, it awarded Summer Search in San Francisco, CA $10,000, Takeoff Institute in Cambridge, MA $10,000, and Goodie Nation in Atlanta, GA $11,982 and $10,000.
Typical grants cluster in the low five figures, with a p25 of $10,000, a median of $13,491, and a p75 of $39,493. That distribution suggests the foundation often makes modest-to-mid-sized awards, with occasional larger commitments. The recent list also shows repeat giving: Color Stack, Dev Color, Color Wave, Hbcuvu, Digital Nest Inc, Goodie Nation, and Project Invent each appear more than once, indicating ongoing relationships rather than one-off support. The foundation is a public charity and also makes program-related investments. Its grantmaking appears to be direct and discretionary; no application process is shown in the data.
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Most grants fall between $10K and $39K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$39K
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Moderate-size portfolio with a mix of repeat multi-year support and one-off gifts; concentrated funding toward a small set of mission-aligned grantees (several organizations received multiple awards), predominately in tech/STEM and youth development rather than large institutional grants.
Notable grantees: Color Wave, Dev Color, Color Stack, Digital NEST, Hidden Genius Project
Grantmaking is regional, with 65% of grants going to recipients in California. Recent California recipients include Menlo Park, Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco, and Watsonville, showing a strong Bay Area concentration alongside other in-state locations. Outside California, the foundation made grants to Baldwin, NY; Atlanta, GA; and Cambridge, MA. All recent grants in the dataset went to U.S. organizations.
It supports organizations working on systemic inequality through Black-led tech workforce development, STEM education, HBCU and cultural institution support, entrepreneurship, civic leadership, and college-and-career navigation. Recent grantees include Black Product, Color Stack, Dev Color, Color Wave, Hidden Genius Project Inc, and Summer Search.
Yes. Several recipients appear more than once in the recent grants list, including Color Stack, Dev Color, Color Wave, Hbcuvu, Digital Nest Inc, Goodie Nation, and Project Invent. That pattern points to sustained relationships with selected organizations.
The grant-size distribution centers around low five figures: p25 is $10,000, median is $13,491, and p75 is $39,493. The recent list includes both smaller awards and larger grants such as $55,000 and $50,000.
Most grants go to California recipients. The dataset shows 65% of grants in the HQ state, and recent California grantees are located in Menlo Park, Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco, and Watsonville.
The Concrete Rose Community Foundation is a public charity and the data shows that it makes program-related investments as well as grants. The recent grants list is composed entirely of U.S. recipients.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLOR STACK | BALDWIN, NY | $193,500 | 2025 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| BLACK PRODUCT MANAGERS | BERKELEY, CA | $55,000 | 2025 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR WAVE | BERKELEY, CA | $50,000 | 2025 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| PROJECT INVENT | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $10,000 | 2025 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| BLACK PRODUCT | — | $55,000 | 2024 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR WAVE | BERKELEY, CA | $50,000 | 2024 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR STACK | BALDWIN, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| PROJECT INVENT | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $10,000 | 2024 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| CIRCUS CLUB | — | $6,280 | 2024 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| DEV COLOR | MENLO PARK, CA | $50,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| DEV COLOR | MENLO PARK, CA | $50,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR STACK | BALDWIN, NY | $50,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR WAVE | BERKELEY, CA | $44,324 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR WAVE | BERKELEY, CA | $25,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| HBCUVU | RICHMOND, CA | $25,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| DIGITAL NEST INC | WATSONVILLE, CA | $15,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT INC | OAKLAND, CA | $15,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| GOODIE NATION | ATLANTA, GA | $11,982 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| GOODIE NATION | ATLANTA, GA | $10,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| SUMMER SEARCH | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $10,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| HBCUVU | RICHMOND, CA | $10,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| COLOR STACK | BALDWIN, NY | $10,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| DIGITAL NEST INC | WATSONVILLE, CA | $10,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| TAKEOFF INSTITUTE | CAMBRIDGE, MA | $10,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| PROJECT INVENT | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $7,500 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | ATLANTA, GA | $6,000 | 2023 | TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY |
BLACK PRODUCT MANAGERS
$55,000TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
COLOR WAVE
$50,000TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
BLACK PRODUCT
$55,000TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
COLOR WAVE
$50,000TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
CIRCUS CLUB
$6,280TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
COLOR WAVE
$44,324TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
COLOR WAVE
$25,000TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY
TAKEOFF INSTITUTE
$10,000TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY