UpMetrics Cohorts | Bay Area

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About the Bay Area Cohort

The Cohort is currently funded by five local foundations:

Quest Foundation
Walther Family Foundation
O'Brien Family Foundation
Morgan Family Charitable
Payne Family Foundation

Join the Cohort's Funder Collaborative

2025 Year In Review

Year 2 of our Bay Area Cohort is a wrap! In 2025, we worked alongside 5 funders and 5 grantees to operationalize impact data, deepen data storytelling skills, and build a community of practice across organizations doing meaningful work in the Bay Area.

From 80+ hours of 1:1 support to quarterly learning sessions on everything from data collection best practices to automating insights, it's been a year of real progress.

Check out our Year in Review video or download the report to see what we built together.

Download the 2025 Year in Review Report

Grantees participating in the cohort are focused on:

Measuring What Matters

Defining the right impact metrics and tracking them with confidence.

Making Sense of their Data

Building skills in analysis and visualization to uncover insights and guide strategy.

Securing Funding

Using data to craft compelling impact narratives that help secure and sustain funding.

Building Community

Exchanging learnings and collaborating with a local peer network of nonprofit leaders.

Each Cohort Grantee Receives

Access to UpMetrics' Technology

Use industry-leading tools to collect, analyze, and communicate your impact data—all in one place. No more scrambling for reports or struggling to translate outcomes into stories.

Peer Learning Sessions

Learn and grow with other nonprofit leaders navigating similar challenges. These facilitated sessions focus on real-time problem solving, shared experiences, and practical skill-building.

Skill-Building Workshops & Support

We’ll be with you every step of the way, from onboarding to implementation, to ensure you’re set up for success and equipped to sustain the work long-term.

Funder Connections

Gain visibility and connections through the UpMetrics Funder Network, which helps open doors to aligned grantmakers looking to support organizations like yours.

Meet the Grantees

The Arc SF promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The Arc San Francisco is a collaborative community of participants, families, and Circles of Support working together to provide accessible, inclusive services, and advocating for disability justice.

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Faces SF provides vital childcare, enrichment, and economic supports to low-income working families in San Francisco.

FACES envisions a future where all families have what they need to live, grow, and thrive in San Francisco. Towards this vision, their mission is for every child to reach their unique potential within a safe and joyful learning environment and every family to access a network of support that promotes well-being, opportunity, and community.

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Holy Family Day Home provides affordable, high quality, early childhood education and family support services in a stable and nurturing environment.

Holy Family Day Home envisions a future where more Bay Area children and families have the opportunity and skills to maintain stable, healthy lives, realize their potential, and better contribute to their community.

R.O.C.K. is the largest provider of active and enriching programs for children and youth in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley.

R.O.C.K. (Real Options for City Kids) is the largest provider of academic and social support for at-risk youth in Visitacion Valley. R.O.C.K. addresses the needs of at-risk youth through an innovative combination of learning enrichment, sports and fitness, leadership training, and outdoor adventure programs. These yearlong school-based and out of school programs are vital, providing a way to encourage positive living and healthy emotional connections with others.

Women's Coaching Alliance is developing future female leaders through coaching youth sports.

Women's Coaching Alliance reaches young women athletes at a critical stage, strengthening their confidence to become future leaders at a time when society tells them they can’t. Their expert mentors help them tie coaching to leading, so they not only see their potential, they have the confidence they need to achieve it.

News & Updates

Bay Area Cohort 2025 Year In Review Cover page

2025 Cohort Year in Review

Read the Report

Video: Building Bridges & Deepening Collaboration

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Recap from the August 2024 Convening

Video: Helping Grantees tell their Stories of Impact

Hear from the Grantees

For R.O.C.K., the best part about the cohort learning that we're doing is hearing about what other challenges other organizations are facing around metrics and data gathering, but also hearing about what solutions they've found for themselves. I feel like I'm learning something new to bring back to R.O.C.K. after each session, and I really hope I'm leading others with some of our lessons learned as well.

Hanna Doer

Deputy Director, R.O.C.K (Real Options for City Kids)

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We are huge fans of this UpMetrics project... something that's so exciting is that we're able to conceptualize how to use the data that we already have and also teasing out and understanding ways that we can create and adapt data that's person-centered and participant led... I also want to shout out our colleagues in the cohort, it's a brilliant group of people and we're learning a lot from them.

Esther Landau

Senior Director of Advancement, The Arc of San Francisco

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One of the biggest benefits of the cohort is having connections with other community based organizations in the Bay who are also learning how to measure impact through their work.

I am looking forward to learning more from our collective insights, as well as the quarterly data and leadership sessions. I feel lucky to be a part of a cohort that offers this type of shared learning.

Laura Preuss

Evaluation & Learning Manager, FACES

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Interested in joining the Bay Area Cohort as an additional Funder or Grantee?

Complete the form to share a little about your organization and what you're looking to accomplish this year.

Foundations and other grantmakers:

You can choose to either sponsor your own Cohort or co-sponsor an existing Cohort.

Nonprofits:

Reach out to see how you can become a participating grantee in one of our sponsored Cohorts.

FUN FACT:

On average, nonprofits that participate in our cohorts increase their funding by 55.8% year over year.