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Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights at a glance

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Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights

EDUCATION, GRANTMAKING Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$280kHuman Services$93kCrime & Legal$86kYouth Development$49kCivil Rights$28kCommunity Improvement$23kRecreation & Sports$17kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$20,000
ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES$17,000
PRC$14,000
SIDE BY SIDE$13,000
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA$11,000
GAPA FUND$10,000
LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT$10,000
ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES$9,000
FENTCHECK INC$8,000
LYRIC (LAVENDER YOUTH REC & INFO CENTER)$8,000
SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION$8,000
UCSF ALLIANCE HEALTH PROJECT$8,000
SF LGBT CENTER$8,000
LYON MARTIN WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES$8,000
HEALTH INITIATIVE FOR YOUTH$7,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURE: $6k → 12%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $17k → 10%STARVISTASAN MATEO PRIDE CENTER: $1k → 7%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 10%STARVISTASAN MATEO PRIDE CENTER: $1k → 7%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%STAR VISTA - SAN MATEO PRIDE CTR: $7k → 7%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%ALAMEDA FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION: $10k → 10%FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION: $5k → 10%FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SVC: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SVC: $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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 86%.

Bay Area Physicians for Human Rightslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 19 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$426k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+59%

Still filing today

74%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

  • AL
    AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
    6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +57%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +70%
  • AC
    ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES
    5× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +162%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CA REGENTS - LGBTI RESOURCES
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -21%
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
The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center

The san diego lgbt community center enhances and sustains the health & well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, nonbinary, immigrant, and hiv communities to the betterment of our entire san diego region.

Health
2
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
3
Center for Immigrant Protection

The LGBTAP is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gener identity and/or HIV…

Crime & Legal
4
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
5
Southern Arizona Aids Foundation

To promote health, well-being, and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals, and communities marginalized by society.

Health
6
Aids Project of the East Bay

Aids project of the east bay (apeb) is focused on the prevention of the spread of hiv and supports individuals living with the virus through programs targeted at some of the most vulnerable and marginalized individuals. apeb seeks to…

Health
7
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
8
Openhouse

Openhouse enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ+ seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs. (continued on Schedule O)

Housing & Shelter
9
Los Angeles Lgbt Center

Building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete members of society. since its inception, the los angeles lgbt center (center) has been building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete…

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10
Palo Alto University Inc

Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science

Education
11
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Aids Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fentcheck Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 46 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC: $30,500 · OtherHEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INCMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE: $22,500 · OtherMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CAREUCSF ALLIANCE HEALTH PROJECT: $20,500 · OtherUCSF ALLIANCE HEALTH PROJECTSF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $20,000 · OtherSF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERLYRIC (LAVENDER YOUTH REC & INFO CENTER): $18,000 · OtherLYRIC (LAVENDER YOUTH REC & INFO CENTER)LYON MARTIN WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES: $18,000 · OtherLYON MARTIN WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICESSHANTI PROJECT: $15,000 · OtherPRC: $14,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CA REGENTS - LGBTI RESOURCES: $10,000 · OtherLGBT ASYLUM PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherSTAR VISTA SAN MATEO PRIDE CENTER: $10,000 · OtherRainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County: $17,000 · OtherRainbow Community Center of Contra Costa CountyUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $58,000 · Other+14 moreAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $45,000 · HealthAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PA…ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $32,000 · HealthADOLESCENT COUNSELING …Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc: $20,000 · HealthAsian and Pacific Isla…Side By Side: $16,500 · HealthSide By SideQUEER LIFE SPACE INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthAlameda Family Services Inc: $31,800 · Human ServicesAlameda Family…Family Builders by Adoption: $20,000 · Human ServicesFamily Builder…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY …StarVista: $9,000 · Human ServicesStarVistaHEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES: $6,000 · Human ServicesHEALING WATERS…CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $31,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRO LEG…FENTCHECK INC: $28,000 · Crime & LegalFENTCHECK …SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $33,000 · Community ImprovementGAPA FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE ALWAN FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $3,000 · Civil RightsLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $18,000 · Youth Development
Other$283,500Health$120,500Human Services$76,800Crime & Legal$59,000Community Improvement$33,000Civil Rights$20,000Youth Development$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $33,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $32,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAlameda Family Services Inc: $31,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC: $30,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFENTCHECK INC: $28,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAsian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Builders by Adoption: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County: $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSide By Side: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAPA FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarVista: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALWAN FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetHEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES: $6,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetQUEER LIFE SPACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetProject Bandaloop: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Center for Human Growth: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHIATRISTS: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Horizons FoundationSutter Bay HospitalsKaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…Grass Roots Gay Right…Tipping Point Communi…McNabb FoundationJewish Community Fede…The Yelp FoundationAids Walk San Francis…Danford FoundationExtrafood
Horizons FoundationCA38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation · Tipping Point Community · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Aids Walk San Francisco Foundation · Danford Foundation · Extrafood

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 Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights?

    Find your warmest path to Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights 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 46 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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