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Excelsior Action Group

To educate and assist enterpreneurs and small business

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$51kHealth$30kYouth Development$30kReligion$25kHuman Services$20kEducation$5kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $15,651, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,740 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,089 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Excelsior Outer Mission Merchan$6,000
The San Francisco Parks Alliance$5,000
Cayuga Neighborhood Improvement Ass$4,651
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 (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH ART EXCHANGE: $10k → 10%Family Connections Centers: $5k → 10%Asianweek Foundation: $5k → 10%National Coalition of 100 Women Inc: $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 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 High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
2
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
3
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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4
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
5
East Bay Integrative Pregnancy Project Ebipp

The East Bay Integrative Pregnancy Project works in partnership with the birth community to empower underserved pregnant individuals to take control of their health care by providing integrative medicine treatments., health education, and…

Health
6
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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7
San Francisco City Guides

Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.

Human Services
8
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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11
Friends of St Francis Childcare Center Inc

To enrich San Francisco and the world by providing best practice childcare servicesto culturally and economically diverse families while serving parents through anenduring community of staff, peer parent and professional support.

Education
12
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers; the most unlike its peers is National Coalition of 100 Black Women. 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

8 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. 8 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gentilly: $25,000 · OtherGentillyCalabria Bros: $25,000 · OtherCalabria BrosExcelsior Coffee: $25,000 · OtherExcelsior CoffeeDark Horse Inn: $25,000 · OtherDark Horse InnOthers: $8,600 · OtherOthersEOMM INC: $6,000 · Other+8 more: $39,651 · Other+8 moreTIDES CENTER: $9,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERASIANWEEK FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesASIANWEEK FOU…FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNEC…NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COAL…SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBayview SOL: $5,000 · HealthGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education
Other$154,251Human Services$24,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Health$5,000Education$5,000

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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIANWEEK FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBayview SOL: $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ASIANWEEK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds Bayview SOL ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN BRIDGES SCHOOL ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Excelsior Action Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Excelsior Action Group. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Excelsior Action Group?

    Find your warmest path to Excelsior Action Group 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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