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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
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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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cambodian Community Developme$20,000
All My Usos$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Southwest Community Corp: $10k → 10%Southwest Community Corp: $7k → 10%All My Usos: $20k → 10%Cambodian Community Developme: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
2
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
3
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
4
Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness

We envision a San Francisco where communities can access coordinated, culturally affirming whole-person care through trusted, community-rooted systems-leading to longer lives, stronger prevention, and reduced avoidable health related harm.

Health
5
City Fields Foundation
Recreation & Sports
6
Oceanview Merced Ingleside Cultural Participation Project

OMI-CPP serves San Franciscos 94112 and 94132 neighborhoods by promoting equity, inclusion, and empowerment through multicultural events, homeless outreach, civic engagement, small business marketing & graphic design, and social justice…

Community Improvement
7
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Family Foundation
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9
Samoan Solutions

Education

Human Services
10
Pilipino Senior Resource Center

The organization's mission is to provide comprehensive quality services for seniors and their families in the south of market area of san francisco, california and other neighborhoods.

Human Services
11
Pacific Islander Community Partnership

Pacific Islander Community Partnership (PICP) is a community-centered organization that empowers and supports Pacific Islander communities. Its exempt purpose is to advance cultural preservation; equitable access to education, health, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Impact Oakland Now
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Life After Next. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL MY USOS: $20,000 · Human ServicesALL MY USOSCambodian Community Development Incorporated: $20,000 · Human ServicesCambodian Community Development IncorporatedSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $17,091 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY CORPORATIONSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $17,091 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARK…GIRLS LEADING GIRLS: $7,091 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS LEADING GIRL…FAATASI YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAATASI YOUTH…KIDS ENJOY EXERCISE NOW SAN FRANCISCO: $7,091 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS ENJOY EX…Life After Next: $10,000 · Crime & LegalLOYAL BUTTERFLIES WOMEN WELLNESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $10,000 · OtherPush Dance Company: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE FOUNDATION OF SF: $7,091 · Community Improvement
Human Services$57,091Recreation & Sports$24,182Youth Development$17,091Crime & Legal$10,000Other$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Education$10,000Community Improvement$7,091

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Fou…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 18 Reasons funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 18 Reasons. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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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.

    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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