About Y & H Soda Foundation
Y & H Soda Foundation appears to be a deeply place-based East Bay funder focused on immigrant rights, workers’ rights, and economic justice in Contra Costa, Alameda, and broader Bay Area communities. Its grants often support grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and community-led campaigns through organizations serving low-income residents, immigrant families, and worker-ownership efforts. The foundation also shows a strong interest in collaborative and movement-building work, including public banking, guaranteed income, and local economic inclusion.
Focus Areas
East Bay Immigrant Rights and OrganizingWorkers’ Rights and Labor JusticeContra Costa County Community Power BuildingEconomic Justice and Worker OwnershipPublic Banking and Community Wealth-BuildingGuaranteed Income and Family Economic Security
Giving Approach
Concentrated, relationship-based giving with meaningful repeat support for a core set of East Bay grantees; many grants are mid-sized and aimed at advocacy, organizing, and collaborative initiatives rather than broad, one-off philanthropy.
Notable grantees: Centro Legal de la Raza Inc., East Bay Community Foundation, Urban Habitat Program, Monument Impact, California Immigrant Policy Center
About Y & H Soda Foundation
Y & H Soda Foundation’s recent giving is defined by three very large charitable grants, including a $4,040,000 award in 2025 and two other grants above $3.6 million. That pattern points to a concentrated funder that makes a small number of high-dollar awards rather than a broad spread of smaller grants. In the records provided, the grants are labeled generically as “Charitable” or “See Grant Statement,” so the public record here emphasizes scale over program detail. The foundation’s grant history also shows a strong East Bay orientation in how it supports nonprofits. Its active funding areas center on economic justice, immigrant rights and inclusion, and family economic success, with program descriptions that mention living-wage jobs, job training, asset building, community economic development, narrative change, and equity-centered advocacy. Those themes suggest a funder focused on organizational strength and community conditions rather than narrow project categories. Because the grant entries in this dataset do not identify named recipients, the clearest profile comes from the structure of the giving itself: large awards, repeated charitable labeling, and a regional strategy tied to Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
What Y & H Soda Foundation Funds
The foundation’s active programs point to a two-part emphasis: economic security and immigrant inclusion. Under Family Economic Success, it supports employment and job training, asset building, and community economic development in the East Bay, including work on credit improvement, savings, microenterprise, and worker cooperatives. Immigrant Rights and Inclusion is another core area. The strategy supports organizations that protect immigrant rights, build immigrant community power, expand civic participation, advance positive narratives about immigrants, and deepen collaboration with local communities in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and the broader East Bay. Economic Justice adds a policy and organizing lens. That area backs local advocacy, organizing, and narrative change efforts aimed at the root causes of economic inequality in the East Bay. Across these areas, the foundation’s descriptions consistently connect grantmaking to community-level systems change.
How Y & H Soda Foundation Gives
The grant-size data show a tightly clustered pattern: the 25th percentile is $3,653,610, the median is $3,669,220, and the 75th percentile is $3,684,831. That narrow spread matches the recent grants table, where all three reported awards are multi-million-dollar charitable grants. This is a regular funder rather than a donor-advised fund. The records point to concentrated, episodic grantmaking, with a very small number of large awards rather than many small ones. Several active program areas accept unsolicited proposals, but General Grantmaking is by invitation after initial contact and alignment review.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$4.7M
Total Assets
$112.3M
Total Revenue
$3.5M
Total Expenses
$7.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $3K and $75K, with a median of $5K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$5K
75th Percentile
$75K
Geographic Reach
Local6 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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