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Neighbors for a Better San Francisco

The organization's charitable and educational purposes include, but are not limited to: the development of, and education of the public with respect to, public policy issues that will improve the quality of live and governance in San Francisco, including the promotion of good government practices, the defense of civil and property…

$393k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$150kCrime & Legal$120kScience & Tech$100kEducation$100kHuman Services$70kCommunity Improvement$70kPublic Benefit$60kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $384,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $393,130 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,630 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $260k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Inspire SF$60,000
Voice of San Francisco Inc$50,000
SF Parent Coalition$50,000
Asian Pacific American CC$50,000
Asian Inc$50,000
TogetherSF$40,000
CA Friends of Tenants Caucus$29,500
SF Assn of Realtors Found$20,000
Moonstar Charitable Org$20,000
Planned Parenthood of N CA$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Moonstar Charitable Org: $20k → 7%Planned Parenthood of N CA: $15k → 9%SF Parent Coalition: $50k → 10%Inspire SF: $60k → 10%Mr Badly Productions LLC: $100k → 10%SF Parent Coalition: $50k → 10%Stop Crime SF: $20k → 10%GBTBmedia LLC: $100k → 10%Stop Crime SF: $100k → 10%Asian Inc: $50k → 10%SF Assn of Realtors Found: $20k → 10%Sisters Circle Women Sup Net: $20k → 10%SF Assn of Realtors Found: $15k → 10%SF Assn of Realtors Found: $10k → 10%Voice of San Francisco Inc: $50k → 10%Asian Pacific American CC: $50k → 10%CA Friends of Tenants Caucus: $30k → 10%CA Friends of Tenants Caucus: $10k → 10%TogetherSF: $40k → 10%Global SF: $20k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$305k · 4 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$305k
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementCrime & LegalPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    STOP CRIME SF
    2× · 2021–2023 · $120k · 53% of their budget
  • SF
    San Francisco Parent Coalition
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +55% · 27% of their budget
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • GL
    GBTBmedia LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MB
    Mr Badly Productions LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SC
    SISTERS CIRCLE WOMEN SUPPORT
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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.

04Its 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 Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
2
Abundant San Francisco

To support effective government policies in San Francisco

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3
South San Francisco for Good Public Policy

To educate the public and advocate for sound policies on issues impacting the City of South San Francisco, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the State of California.

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4
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
5
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

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.…

Education
6
Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition

Represent interests of Asian-Pacific Island Women.

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7
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
8
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
9
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter
10
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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11
Homeownership San Francisco dba Home Sf

The Organization is a citywide collaborative of housing counseling agencies that helps diverse and underserved households achieve and sustain homeownership in San Francisco.

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12
Affordable Homes for San Franciscans Now

Support passage of local ballot measure in San Francisco, CA to support affordable and middle income housing.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together Sf; the most unlike its peers is Moonstar Charitable Organization. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GBTBmedia LLC: $100,000 · OtherGBTBmedia LLCMr Badly Productions LLC: $100,000 · OtherMr Badly Productions LLCINSPIRESF: $60,000 · OtherINSPIRESFTogether SF: $40,000 · OtherTogether SFSISTERS CIRCLE WOMEN SUPPORT: $20,000 · OtherGLOBALSF: $20,000 · OtherMOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $20,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $15,000 · OtherSTOP CRIME SF: $120,000 · Crime & LegalSTOP CRIME SFSan Francisco Parent Coalition: $100,000 · EducationSan Francisco…ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN PACIFIC…ASIAN INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN INCVOICE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA FRIENDS OF TENANTS CAUCUS: $39,500 · Civil Rights
Other$375,000Crime & Legal$120,000Education$100,000Community Improvement$100,000Arts & Culture$50,000Philanthropy$45,000Civil Rights$39,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTOP CRIME SF: $120,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetSan Francisco Parent Coalition: $100,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetASIAN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVOICE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTogether SF: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGLOBALSF: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $15,000 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.

San Francisco Associa…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
San Francisco Association of Realtors FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Neighbors for a Better San Francisco funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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
    ⤢ 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Neighbors for a Better San Francisco?

    Find your warmest path to Neighbors for a Better San Francisco 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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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