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South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events

Folsom Street is a 501c3 non-profit arts and culture organization that produces iconic events that benefit our whole community. Our events and community center feature emerging and marginalized artists and create spaces and audiences for unique art and performance. We cultivate a safe, open, and inclusive environment for the kink,…

$161k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
9
Organizations funded FY2019
11%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$17,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$21,283
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$17k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 11% of the organizations South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20199$144k11%
FY20186$90k0%
FY201712$159kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$165kArts & Culture$86kCrime & Legal$58kCivil Rights$56kPhilanthropy$53kHuman Services$21kAnimals$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Baker Places Inc$54,86730%
Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic$53,53336%
AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area$52,10031%
Frameline Inc$47,36731%
Prc$45,18730%
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center$42,66731%
Golden Gate Performing Arts Inc$27,50020%
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc$21,28318%
Turnout Inc$13,2002n/a
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society$11,00011%
Project Inform$11,00011%
Pets Are Wonderful Support$7,0001n/a
Erotic Service Provider Legal Education and Research$5,500111%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaker Places Inc: $54,867 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBerkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic: $53,533 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area: $52,100 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFrameline Inc: $47,367 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPrc: $45,187 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center: $42,667 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGolden Gate Performing Arts Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc: $21,283 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society: $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProject Inform: $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetErotic Service Provider Legal Education and Research: $5,500 over 1y, 11% 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 11.

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 FoundationCA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events?

Find your warmest path to South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events 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 South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events

How much does South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events give?
South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events reported 10 grants totaling $161,183 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (37%), Arts & Culture (19%), Crime & Legal (13%).
Who are South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Baker Places Inc ($55k), Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic ($54k), AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area ($52k).
Does South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Horizons Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation.
Where is South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events based?
South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events 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 14 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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