the jackie speier foundation

Name

the jackie speier foundation

Legal name

The Jackie Speier Foundation

Website

https://jackiespeierfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Services and Child Poverty Alleviation

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG), Family Offices & Philanthropic Advisors (Grantmaking) (BPAGAKAD)

Keywords

• Child poverty programs
• Nonprofit foundation services
• Cash assistance programs
• Community fundraising initiatives
• Family support services

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: The foundation accepts monetary donations through its website via Network for Good platform, with donors able to contribute to various programs including the Love Local initiative and general fund.
2. Fundraising Events: Revenue generated through events such as Love Local (raised over $250,000 in May 2026) and Jackie's Closet pop-up shops (raised over $10,000).
3. Grant Funding: Seed funding from foundation plus mobilization of over $12 million for the Baby Bonus Program three-year pilot. The foundation helped mobilize funds from multiple sources including NIH research findings to support the pilot.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Jackie Speier Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that supports programs reducing child poverty and improving economic mobility, housing, and family well-being in San Mateo County, California. Its core offerings are direct-service and grant-funded programs, including a Baby Bonus cash assistance pilot for newborns, community diaper distribution, and annual fundraising and awareness events such as Love Local and the Ending Child Poverty Summit.

Product overview

The Jackie Speier Foundation operates as a nonprofit organization with multiple interconnected programs aimed at ending child poverty in San Mateo County. The core offerings include the Baby Bonus Program (an evidence-based cash aid and support services initiative for newborns), the Love Local fundraising initiative with its Circle of Local Love membership, the student-led Diaper Drive, periodic Ending Child Poverty Summits, and pop-up fundraising events like Jackie's Closet. These programs work together to provide direct financial support, raise awareness, engage the community, and develop sustainable solutions for families in need.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Baby Bonus Program An evidence-based cash assistance demonstration project providing a $300 monthly cash gift along with coordinated care services for three years to 600 randomly selected children on Medi-Cal born at partner hospitals. Pairs unconditional cash gifts with coordinated care in the first three years of life.
• Love Local A fundraising initiative connecting SF Peninsula creativity and prosperity to urgent social needs in San Mateo County, focusing on vulnerable children and families, including the Circle of Local Love membership program.
• Diaper Drive An ongoing initiative engaging local high school student volunteers to collect monetary donations and new, unopened diaper boxes for distribution through Community Resource Centers across the Peninsula.
• Ending Child Poverty Summit A periodic community gathering featuring insights from experts on child poverty and bringing together leaders and community members to develop community-driven approaches to ending child poverty in San Mateo County.

Quantifiable outcome

• Baby Bonus Program provides $300 monthly cash gift for 3 years to 600 children
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and keynote.

• Treasure Paws (Peninsula Humane Society)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2025Jackie's Closet was a pop-up shop collaboration at Treasure Paws thrift store in Burlingame. 50% of each sale went to the foundation, 50% supported Treasure Paws and Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA.
• Stanford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025Interdisciplinary team of Stanford University faculty is conducting comprehensive evaluation of the Baby Bonus Program, generating valuable data to inform local and national policy on reinstating the enhanced child credit and county-level decisions.
• Lucille Packard Children's HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025Baby Bonus Program participants are children born at Lucille Packard hospital and a few other local hospitals who are selected for the pilot program.
• First 5 San Mateo CountymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024Westmoor students partnered with First 5 San Mateo County to assess the most pressing needs of families with young children for the diaper drive initiative.
• Westmoor High SchoolmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2024Students from Westmoor High School partnered with the foundation to organize diaper drive after Jackie Speier's guest speaker appearance. Student organizers include Juleen Mallari, Taylor Lam, Charlotte Tsang, and Madison Yu.
• Dr. Matthew DesmondkeynoteStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2023Professor of Sociology at Princeton University delivered keynote address at the August 2023 Ending Child Poverty Summit. Author of Pulitzer Prize winning 'Evicted' and 'Poverty, by America'.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Silicon Valley Community Foundation: Large Bay Area community foundation making grants across Silicon Valley including San Mateo County. Directly comparable as a regional grantmaking entity focused on local child and family welfare, though materially larger in scale and broader in mission.
• Heising-Simons Foundation: Large California-based family foundation with substantial early childhood and child poverty grantmaking. Comparable model of evidence-based grantmaking in child welfare, though at substantially greater scale and broader geographic scope.

Emerging players

• Child Poverty Action Lab: Dallas-based nonprofit using data and program pilots to reduce child poverty, with strong evaluation partnerships. Comparable model of combining evidence generation, direct programs, and policy advocacy at a local level.
• Campaign for Working Families: Note: replaced with a more directly comparable peer — see Magnolia Mother's Trust entry. Comparable mission of cash transfers to families with children to reduce poverty.

Direct peers

• Stupski Foundation: Bay Area family foundation investing in early childhood and economic mobility for low-income families. Comparable focus on cash assistance, family stability, and place-based child poverty work.
• National Diaper Bank Network: National nonprofit addressing diaper need, the same core need addressed by the foundation's Diaper Drive program. Comparable community-distribution model with strong volunteer engagement.
• Tipping Point Community: Bay Area nonprofit that funds and partners with organizations addressing poverty, including early childhood and family economic mobility. Comparable grantmaking-plus-direct-service model targeting vulnerable populations in the same geography.
• Magnolia Mother's Trust: Operates a guaranteed monthly income program for low-income mothers in Mississippi, directly comparable to the Baby Bonus Program's unconditional cash gift model for families with newborns.
• First 5 San Mateo County: County-level organization funding early childhood programs for children 0-5 and their families. Jackie Speier Foundation is already a program partner via the diaper drive, and the missions directly overlap on early childhood poverty in San Mateo County.

Others

• Promise of Placerville / San Mateo County Health Foundation: Note: the foundation's actual donation processing is routed through the Peninsula Volunteer Partners / Ventures Foundation, which serves as a fiscal sponsor for the Baby Bonus and related programs. Directly relevant as the operational infrastructure partner.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles5 records

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