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Menorah Park

Project-based section 8 independent living building for seniors and those handicaps.

$731k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$150k
Largest

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100% of Menorah Park’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Francisco Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Menorah Park named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $731k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$7.4MHousing & Shelter$7.1MHuman Services$200kFood & Nutrition$156kHealth$75kPublic Benefit$75kEmployment$50kReligion$25k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $675k
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND$150,000
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA$125,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
HEBREW FREE LOAN$75,000
THE HEALTH TRUST$75,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE$50,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC$50,000
TIDES CENTER$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$30,600
CONGREGATION SHALOM BAYIT$25,000
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 (FY20–20, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE: $50k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 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
Meals On Wheels of San Francisco Inc

To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.

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2
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank

The jacobs & cushman san diego food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related…

Food & Nutrition
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
5
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
6
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
7
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles

Jfsla's mission is to provide life-improving services that help the people of los angeles live with dignity and exercise self-determination. we believe in and strive for a more compassionate los angeles where no one has to navigate life…

Human Services
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
San Francisco Market Corporation

Our mission is to connect and grow the region's food agriculture community from our wholesale market in the heart of san francisco. our vision is for all communities in the san francisco bay area to have reliable access to abundant fresh…

Community Improvement
11
The San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund

The corporation's specific purpose is to support affordable housing, community development and economic development for california's economically disadvantaged individuals and communities, by lending to, investing in, and directly…

Housing & Shelter
12
Housing Trust Silicon Valley

Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Food Bank. 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 11 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $14,376,226 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $150,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $125,000 · Food & NutritionEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEALTH TRUST: $75,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $30,600 · OtherCONGREGATION SHALOM BAYIT: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $50,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$14,376,226Food & Nutrition$275,000Human Services$200,000Public Benefit$75,000Health$75,000Other$55,600Employment$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $14,376,226 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $30,600 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Menorah Park funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Menorah Park. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 11 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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