Walter & Elise Haas Fund

A longstanding Bay Area family fund practicing trust based, power sharing philanthropy against racial and gender wealth gaps, backing organizations led by Black people and people of color, belonging in Oakland and San Francisco, and the creative power of artists

Financial profile

Walter & Elise Haas Fund · EIN 94-6068564 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$30,500,482$18,366,401$250,800,481Dec 2023
FY2022$-33,483,244$16,338,216$238,666,400Dec 2022
FY2021$45,613,238$18,705,086$288,487,860Dec 2021
FY2020$42,305,832$17,087,431$261,579,708Dec 2020
FY2019$40,234,428$15,305,531$236,361,307Dec 2019
FY2015$3,303,655$15,914,509$216,073,426Dec 2015

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Peer societies

Five societies Walter & Elise Haas Fund is read alongside.

Who backs WEHF

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The outside view

A longstanding Bay Area family fund practicing trust based, power sharing philanthropy against racial and gender wealth gaps, backing organizations led by Black people and people of color, belonging in Oakland and San Francisco, and the creative power of artists

  • Consensus
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Movement

Gathered around a cause, and built to move.

The Movement is mission-led and built to mobilize, organized around changing something in the world. Its gift is passion and external impact, its challenge is turning momentum into something that lasts.

Also reads toward The Legacy and The Republic.

Strengths

→Real influence on the wider field.
→Members are motivated by a clear why.
→Quick to rally around what matters now.

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