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Ashbury Childrens Foundation at a glance

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Ashbury Childrens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$79kEducation$76kHousing & Shelter$19kHealth$17kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$8kCommunity Improvement$1k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$140k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Episcopal Community Services$7,500
Sunset Cooperative Nursery School$7,500
Family Connections Centers$5,500
Raphael House$5,000
Center for Early Intervention on De$5,000
Homeless Childrens Network$5,000
Holy Family Day Home$5,000
Noe Valley Cooperative Nursery School$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $94k) 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%Homeless Childrens Network: $5k → 10%Homeless Children's Network: $1k → 10%Epiphany Center: $1k → 10%Episcopal Community Services: $8k → 10%Episcopal Community Services: $6k → 10%Holy Family Day Home: $5k → 10%Holy Family Day Home: $5k → 10%Holy Family Day Home: $5k → 10%Episcopal Community Services: $3k → 10%Compass Family Services: $5k → 10%Compass Family Services: $2k → 10%Compass Family Services: $500 → 10%Children's Book Project: $5k → 10%Family Connections Centers: $6k → 10%Family Connections Centers: $6k → 10%Chinatown Community Children's Ctr: $1k → 10%True Sunshine Preschool Ctr: $1k → 10%Recess Collective: $5k → 10%Children's Book Project: $5k → 10%Recess Collective: $5k → 10%Children's Book Project: $5k → 10%Raphael House: $5k → 10%Raphael House: $5k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$161k · 14 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$161k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+21%

Still filing today

93%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    Center for Early Intervention on Deafness
    4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +0%
  • EC
    Episcopal Community Services
    3× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +36%
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MK
    Mariposa Kids Kids Coop
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MC
    Montessori Childrens House of the West Coastgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • SC
    Sunset Coop Nursery School
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
FranDelJA Enrichment Center

FranDelJA provides full day, year round childcare for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years of age.

Youth Development
4
South of Market Child Care Inc

To serve children and their families in the SOMA community by providing quality early care and education and free comprehensive family support services in a safe and nurturing environment.

Education
5
San Mateo Parents Nursery School

San mateo parents nursery school is a diverse community dedicated to fostering the learning and growth of children and adults. its goal is to create a loving, suppportive, empowering environment for children and their families.

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6
Institute for Human & Social Development

Institute for Human and Social Development provides excellent comprehensive child development and family support services through center based family child care and home visiting to the highest need children of 0-5 years old and their…

Education
7
PREFundorg dba Potrero Kids

We believe families make San Francisco stronger and more vibrant. We are committed to helping create a stronger, more vibrant San Francisco by ensuring that Potrero Hill, Dogpatch and Mission Bay families from a diversity of income levels…

Education
8
Faces Sf

Our mission is to nurture, teach and empower children and families to transform their lives by providing critical assistance to low-income families with early childhood development, workforce training, school-age enrichment, and family…

Education
9
Novato Parents Nursery School Inc

To deliver affordable, reliable, and safe child care in a nurturing environment, partnering with parents in the education and development of their children and serving the community as one family

Education
10
Northcoast Childrens Services Inc

The NCS Vision: To nurture and empower the whole child and family, to enhance our quality of life, and create a more peaceful community.

Education
11
Coastside Childrens Programs

Coastside childrens programs (ccp) mission is to provide a safe and caring environment where children learn through experience, play, and friendships - building a foundation for success in school and life. ccp is offering preschool…

Human Services
12
Little Childrens Developmental Center

The LCDC is dedicated to providing safe, secure, stimulating and age-appropriate developmental activites to low-income and working families with children between the ages of two and five.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers; the most unlike its peers is Noe Valley Nursery School. 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

23 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. 23 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Episcopal Community Services: $16,500 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community ServicesHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY DAY HOMECHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECTFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $11,100 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERSRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INCRecess Collective: $10,000 · Human ServicesRecess CollectiveCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICESHomeless Childrens Network: $6,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Childrens Network+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesWAH MEI SCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherWAH MEI SCHOOLNoe Valley Nursery School: $11,000 · OtherNoe Valley Nursery SchoolMariposa Kids Kids Coop: $10,000 · OtherMariposa Kids Kids CoopSunset Cooperative Nursery School: $7,500 · OtherSunset Cooperative Nursery Sc…WU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $6,000 · OtherWU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICESSunset Coop Nursery School: $5,000 · OtherSunset Coop Nursery School+4 more: $4,000 · Other+4 moreCenter for Early Intervention on Deafness: $20,750 · EducationCenter for Early In…Montessori Childrens House of the West Coast: $10,000 · EducationMontessori Children…Friends of St Francis Childcare Center Inc: $6,000 · EducationFriends of St Franc…Project Commotion: $15,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $1,000 · HealthLOTUS BLOOM: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association: $1,000 · Community ImprovementHAMILTON FAMILIES: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$94,100Other$54,500Education$36,750Health$16,000Youth Development$5,000Community Improvement$1,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Early Intervention on Deafness: $20,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetProject Commotion: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $11,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWAH MEI SCHOOL: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNoe Valley Nursery School: $11,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetMontessori Childrens House of the West Coast: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRecess Collective: $10,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of St Francis Childcare Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHomeless Childrens Network: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChinatown Community Childrens Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrue Sunshine Preschool Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMount St Joseph-St Elizabeth: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Mimi and Peter Haas F…Low Income Investment…The Morris Stulsaft F…Bothin FoundationBella Vista FoundationThe William G Irwin C…June & Julian Foss Fo…McNabb FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…The Joseph & Mercedes…The Henry Mayo Newhal…Crankstart Foundation
Mimi and Peter Haas FundCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Low Income Investment Fund · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Bella Vista Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · June & Julian Foss Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · Crankstart 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 Ashbury Childrens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ashbury Childrens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ashbury Childrens Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ashbury Childrens Foundation 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 29 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-PF 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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