Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces 2026 Community Fund Grantees

Today, the newest cohort of local nonprofit partners has been selected to receive support through the Chan Zuckerberg Community Fund (CZ Community Fund). For 10 years and counting, the CZ Community Fund has fueled nonprofit organizations working to build a thriving San Mateo County, where everyone has the opportunity to prosper.

“We are honored to partner with this year’s grantees, who are meeting urgent needs and creating long-term opportunities across San Mateo County,” said Alma Pulido, who leads the Community Fund. “Their dedication, creativity, and resilience inspire us.”

The 2026 CZ Community Fund grant partner cohort includes organizations working across communities in San Mateo County. Our newest partners focus their efforts in housing, healthcare, education, job and career skills, and other social supports.

“For nearly 30 years, we’ve worked to close the opportunity gap for families in North Central San Mateo, and we do it by meeting the whole child — academically, socially, and materially,” said Benjamin N. York, Ph.D., Executive Director of Homework Central. “This support from the Community Fund helps us keep every part of that model completely free for families, from individualized and small group tutoring at our six after-school sites to hands-on STEAM projects with partners like CuriOdyssey. It’s an investment not just in test scores, but in the dignity and confidence our students carry with them.”

We’re thrilled to share the newest CZ Community Fund grantees:

• East Palo Alto Community Alliance Neighborhood Development Organization (EPACANDO)
• Housing Endowment and Regional Trust of San Mateo County
• Human Investment Project, Inc. (HIP Housing)
• EPACENTER
• East Palo Alto Community Archive
• Music at Kohl Mansion
• Learning Home Volunteers
• Peninsula Bridge
• Homework Central
• Foundation for a College Education
• StreetCode Academy
• Project READ-Redwood City (RCFOL)
• LEMO Foundation
• Each Green Corner
• St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room
• Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Health Teen Van
• Big Wave Group
• Hope Services
• Senior Coastsiders, Inc.
• AgeUp, Inc.
• Bay Area Cancer Connections
• Belle Haven Action
• Healthcare in Action
• Nation’s Finest
• Abundant Grace Coastside Worker
• Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
• Upward Scholars
• Live In Peace, Inc.
• Fortitude Careers
• Pacific Community Ventures Inc.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula
• CASA of San Mateo County
• Boys & Girls Clubs North San Mateo County
• Friends for Youth

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About the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from curing or preventing disease to improving education and addressing the needs of our local communities. We provide the operational support across our areas of work.

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