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Imperial Council of San Francisco Inc

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$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$77kCivil Rights$58kHealth$57kHousing & Shelter$27kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$13kInternational$12kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,159, the rows itemized in this filing. The $42,089 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,930 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.
$5,159
Median grant
1
States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FORWARD$5,159
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER: $25k → 10%RAFIKI COALITION FOR HEALTH: $12k → 10%TRANSGENDER CENTER: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 10%PACIFIC CENTER FOR HUMAN GROWTH: $9k → 10%LYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH: $12k → 10%PRC: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY FORWARD: $5k → 10%OPEN HOUSE: $14k → 10%AUGUILAS: $9k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH CENTER: $6k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 10%QUEER NIGHTLIFE FUND: $60k → 10%LBGT ASYLUM PROJECT: $15k → 10%Q FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%CASTRO COMPANY CLUB: $13k → 10%RAINBOW WORLD FUND: $12k → 10%LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT: $10k → 10%LGBT ASYLUM PROJECT: $8k → 10%CHEER FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%LYRIC: $6k → 10%CPMC COMING HOME: $6k → 10%TENDERLOIN TESSIE: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH: $12k → 10%SF NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 10%SHANTI PROJECT: $6k → 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
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
2
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
3
Queer Works

Our mission is to ameliorate disparities faced by transgender, gender non-binary and intersex people as well as help reduce similar disparities among our lesbian, gay and bisexual communities.

Health
4
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County

Rainbow builds community and promotes well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI+) persons and our allies though social opportunities, health & wellness services, and awareness programs.…

Recreation & Sports
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Curry Senior Center

To provide services to seniors that promote independent living while maintaining their dignity and self-esteem.

Human Services
9
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
10
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
11
Imperial Court of Los Angeles Hollywood

Lgbtq social services

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12
Inreach

InReach fka AsylumConnect is a trans-led tech nonprofit dedicated to building the world's first open source verified LGBTQ+ resource platform. InReach's free platform connects LGBTQ+ people facing persecution or discrimination with a range…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Openhouse; the most unlike its peers is Rainbow World Fund. 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 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUEER NIGHTLIFE FUND: $60,000 · OtherQUEER NIGHTLIFE FUNDLGBT ASYLUM PROJECT: $18,210 · OtherLGBT ASYLUM PROJECTLBGT ASYLUM PROJECT: $15,000 · OtherLBGT ASYLUM PROJECTCASTRO COMPANY CLUB: $13,000 · OtherCASTRO COMPANY CLUBSAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH: $12,306 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTHRAFIKI COALITION FOR HEALTH: $12,306 · OtherRAFIKI COALITION FOR HEALTHLYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH: $12,306 · OtherLYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTHLARKIN STREET YOUTH CENTER: $10,943 · OtherTRANSGENDER CENTER: $10,000 · OtherPacific Center for Human Growth: $9,008 · OtherAUGUILAS: $9,000 · Other+7 more: $45,274 · Other+7 moreQ FOUNDATION: $13,296 · HealthQ FOUNDATI…NIGHT MINISTRY: $10,024 · HealthNIGHT MINI…Community Forward SF Inc: $5,159 · HealthCommunity …Transgender Law Center: $25,000 · Civil RightsOpenhouse: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterRainbow World Fund: $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCheer for Life Foundation Inc DBA CHEER San Francisco: $7,726 · PhilanthropyLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $6,153 · Youth Development
Other$227,353Health$28,479Civil Rights$25,000Housing & Shelter$14,000Public Safety & Disaster$12,000Philanthropy$7,726Youth Development$6,153

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 budgetTransgender Law Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpenhouse: $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQ FOUNDATION: $13,296 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRainbow World Fund: $12,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNIGHT MINISTRY: $10,024 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPacific Center for Human Growth: $9,008 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCheer for Life Foundation Inc DBA CHEER San Francisco: $7,726 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $6,153 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Forward SF Inc: $5,159 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.

  • Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
  • Who funds Openhouse ↗
  • Who funds Q FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rainbow World Fund ↗
  • Who funds NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Center for Human Growth ↗
  • Who funds Cheer for Life Foundation Inc DBA CHEER San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC ↗
  • Who funds SHANTI PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Community Forward SF Inc ↗

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 FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…Crankstart FoundationMcNabb FoundationJewish Community Fede…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Horizons FoundationCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Imperial Council of San Francisco Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imperial Council of San Francisco Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 Imperial Council of San Francisco Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Imperial Council of San Francisco Inc 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 26 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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