Y&H Soda Foundation Grant Program

The Y & H Soda Foundation Grant Program supports organizations in the East Bay focused on equity and social change. Prioritizing immigrant rights and economic justice, the foundation seeks initiatives that address systemic barriers and foster community engagement. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) organizations serving Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. The foundation emphasizes advocacy and local solutions that empower marginalized voices, aiming for lasting impact in promoting inclusivity and prosperity for all residents.

The Y & H Soda Foundation invests in leaders and organizations in the East Bay who are imagining and building a region where everyone can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential.
Our grantmaking strategies and priorities are guided by our values and informed by the close, trusted partnerships we have built in the Alameda and Contra Costa communities.
This means prioritizing efforts that identify and address systemic and structural barriers harming immigrants and people of color in the East Bay. We strive to ensure that our grantmaking offers meaningful resources to East Bay organizations committed to these issues.
Equality Centered Grantmaking
We approach all our grantmaking with an equity focus. This requires a critical examination of the East Bay’s history, policy decisions, governance structures and philanthropic practices that perpetuate racial injustices in the economy and limit the full potential and civic participation of immigrant communities.
Organizations or initiatives requesting funding must have:

• Programming that identifies and addresses the root causes of inequity
• Expected outcomes that build toward lasting change
• Success indicators that are tracked by race and ethnicity, and the data is used to inform, revise, and strengthen the initiative
• Impacted communities who:
• Participate in developing, assessing, or refining project goals and outcomes
• Are provided meaningful opportunities for leadership development by serving on staff, advisory boards, or the Board of Directors
• Demographic alignment between the impacted community and the organization’s leadership and staff
• Our Strategic Priorities

The Y&H Soda Foundation makes grants in the East Bay that advance equity so that everyone can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential, regardless of their race or economic and social status.
We seek to partner with organizations that address inequity by advocating for public policy changes that directly benefit low-income East Bay residents and redirect public and private funding into their communities. We prioritize initiatives that propose local solutions from impacted communities and lift up their collective voices to achieve lasting change. By funding organizations and initiatives that combine advocacy with community organizing and narrative change, we believe that the East Bay will provide greater opportunity and inclusion for immigrants and people of color.
Our two areas of grantmaking focus are:
Economic Justice: building an inclusive local economy where everyone thrivesImmigrant Rights and Inclusion: building a region that values immigrants and protects immigrant rights
We understand that these two areas are interconnected, and we will place a high priority on grant requests that work at the intersection of economic justice and immigrant rights.

Eligibility

Organizations whose work qualifies as charitable, according to the IRS definition. This includes organizations with a 501(c)3 status, public agencies, and projects sponsored by public charities.The work must serve the residents of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

Ineligibility

We do not make grants to individuals.Not classified as a private foundation under section 509(a) of the Code.