Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s initiative offers up to $200,000 grants to 34 nonprofits in California

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has selected 34 local nonprofit organizations to receive support through its 2026 Chan Zuckerberg Community Fund. The initiative supports organizations working to build a thriving San Mateo County in California, where everyone has the opportunity to prosper.

For 10 years and counting, the CZ Community Fund has supported nonprofit organizations working across San Mateo County. The latest cohort includes organizations focusing on housing, healthcare, education, job and career skills, and other social supports. The selected organizations can receive two-year grants of up to $200,000.

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Chan Zuckerberg Community Fund supports local nonprofits

“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. Their efforts focus on addressing local needs and creating long-term opportunities for residents.

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Homework Central highlights importance of funding

Among the organizations receiving support is Homework Central, which works to close the opportunity gap for families in North Central San Mateo. “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.”

List of 34 nonprofits selected for 2026 grants

The newest cohort of CZ Community Fund grantees includes the following organizations:

1. East Palo Alto Community Alliance Neighborhood Development Organization (EPACANDO)

2. Housing Endowment and Regional Trust of San Mateo County

3. Human Investment Project, Inc. (HIP Housing)

4. EPACENTER

5. East Palo Alto Community Archive

6. Music at Kohl Mansion

7. Learning Home Volunteers

8. Peninsula Bridge

9. Homework Central

10. Foundation for a College Education

11. StreetCode Academy

12. Project READ-Redwood City (RCFOL)

13. LEMO Foundation

14. Each Green Corner

15. St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room

16. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Health Teen Van

17. Big Wave Group

18. Hope Services

19. Senior Coastsiders, Inc.

20. AgeUp, Inc.

21. Bay Area Cancer Connections

22. Belle Haven Action

23. Healthcare in Action

24. Nation’s Finest

25. Abundant Grace Coastside Worker

26. Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center

27. Upward Scholars

28. Live In Peace, Inc.

29. Fortitude Careers

30. Pacific Community Ventures Inc.

31. Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula

32. CASA of San Mateo County

33. Boys & Girls Clubs North San Mateo County

34. Friends for Youth

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 local communities.

The organization provides operational support across its areas of work, including science, education and community initiatives.