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18 Reasons

Our mission is to empower our community with the confidence and creativity needed to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations 18 Reasons funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Crime & LegalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$40k100%
FY20233$30k100%
FY20223$30k33%
FY20205$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$57kRecreation & Sports$24kEducation$20kYouth Development$17kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
All My Usos$20,00015%
Cambodian Community Development Incorporated$20,000119%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$17,09120%
Southwest Community Corporation$17,0912n/a
Life After Next$10,0001n/a
Faatasi Youth Services Inc$10,000111%
Loyal Butterflies Women Wellness Empowerment Program$10,0001n/a
Push Dance Company$10,00013%
Kids Enjoy Exercise Now San Francisco$7,09116%
Girls Leading Girls$7,09112%
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All grantees of 18 Reasons by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
All My Usos$20,00015%
Cambodian Community Development Incorporated$20,000119%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$17,09120%
Southwest Community Corporation$17,0912n/a
Life After Next$10,0001n/a
Faatasi Youth Services Inc$10,000111%
Loyal Butterflies Women Wellness Empowerment Program$10,0001n/a
Push Dance Company$10,00013%
Kids Enjoy Exercise Now San Francisco$7,09116%
Girls Leading Girls$7,09112%
Providence Foundation of Sf$7,09110%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 18 Reasons supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAll My Usos: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCambodian Community Development Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSan Francisco Parks Alliance: $17,091 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFaatasi Youth Services Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPush Dance Company: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKids Enjoy Exercise Now San Francisco: $7,091 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGirls Leading Girls: $7,091 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetProvidence Foundation of Sf: $7,091 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco FoundationCA14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to 18 Reasons?

Find your warmest path to 18 Reasons through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About 18 Reasons

How much does 18 Reasons give?
18 Reasons reported 2 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does 18 Reasons fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (14%).
Who are 18 Reasons's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: All My Usos ($20k), Cambodian Community Development Incorporated ($20k), San Francisco Parks Alliance ($17k).
Does 18 Reasons fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as 18 Reasons?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is 18 Reasons based?
18 Reasons is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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