· Private foundation
Metta Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $165,000 |
| THE SCAN FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR SERVICES | $112,500 |
| YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE SCAN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COALITION OF AGENCIES SERVING THE ELDERLY | $100,000 |
| SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $100,000 |
| FELTON INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| US4US BAYAREA | $100,000 |
| FILIPINO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY TECH NETWORK | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +40%
- CLCommunity Living Campaign8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +270%
- HIHOMEBRIDGE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $843k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- RDRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +185%
- CICollective Impactone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -42%
- MUMUJURES UNITAS Y ACTIVASone grant, 2021 · $75k
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.
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.
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,…
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.
The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
We empower individuals, families, and seniors to achieve wellness, stability, and independence through culturally-competent care.
The Organization is a citywide collaborative of housing counseling agencies that helps diverse and underserved households achieve and sustain homeownership in San Francisco.
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…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.
How this is measured
115 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. 115 of the 133 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Community Living Campaign ↗
- Who funds HOMEBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds KIMOCHI INC ↗
- Who funds Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURRY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds Openhouse ↗
- Who funds SHANTI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Felton Institute ↗
- Who funds CARA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Tech Network ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Senior and Disability Action DBA Senior & Disability Action ↗
- Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE IN AGING ↗
- Who funds Walk San Francisco Foundation ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FUTURES FKA CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ON LOK DAY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Covia Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Support for Families of Children with Disabilities ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rafiki Coalition For Health and Wellness ↗
- Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The James Irvine Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Metta Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metta Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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