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Saint Francis Foundation

The mission of SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION is to raise funds and make grants that enhance access to exceptional health care and wellness, delivered with compassion for people and underserved communities in san francisco.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$967k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$20MYouth Development$1.2MHuman Services$343kHousing & Shelter$250kCrime & Legal$204kCommunity Improvement$159kEducation$93kEnvironment$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$967,002
SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$525,000
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$525,000
MAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE$325,000
HYDE STREET COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$250,000
LYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$150,000
CURRY SENIOR CENTER RESPITE & RECUPERATIVE CARE$150,000
SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE$30,000
SEQUOIA LIVING SF SENIOR CENTER SUPPORT CIRCLES$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $525k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICE: $300k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $250k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER RESPITE & RECUPERATIVE CARE: $150k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $150k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 17 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$19M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UH
    UCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · $11M · revenue +69%
  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Services
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +7%
  • HS
    HYDE STREET COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $735k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AP
    ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER WELLNESS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2021 · $274k
  • LS
    LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society
Health
3
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
4
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

Tndc's mission is to develop community and provide affordable housing and services for people with low incomes in the tenderloin and throughout san francisco, to promote equitable access to opportunity and resources.

Housing & Shelter
6
Westside Community Mental Health Center Westside Community Services Inc

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.

Health
7
San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium

To develop and implement programs and to support policies that increase access to community based primary care for the uninsured and underserved patients in the city and county of san francisco.

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8
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
9
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
10
San Francisco City Guides

Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.

Human Services
11
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Senior Center and the most unlike its peers is St Francis Hospital Support Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr13%64%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
11%
694/6,397

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $11,382,816 · HealthUCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITALAsian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc — $660,000 · Health+4 more — $373,750 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL SUPPORT CORPORATION — $2,179,550 · OtherST FRANCIS HOSPITAL SUPPORT…MAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE — $505,000 · OtherMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARESAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $479,350 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSP…ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER WELLNESS CENTER — $300,000 · OtherASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER WE…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $274,400 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION O…LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES — $250,000 · OtherLYON MARTIN HEALTH SERVICES INC — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $204,337 · Other+17 more — $440,570 · Other+17 moreLarkin Street Youth Services — $1,075,000 · Human ServicesCURRY SENIOR CENTER — $307,500 · Human ServicesHYDE STREET COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $735,000 · Community ImprovementNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation — $378,000 · Community ImprovementLOWER POLK COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT — $59,700 · Community Improvement+3 more — $64,250 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $345,500 · Youth Development826 Valencia — $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $49,500 · Environment
Health$12,416,566Other$4,883,207Human Services$1,382,500Community Improvement$1,236,950Youth Development$345,500Education$50,000Environment$49,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUCSF HEALTH COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FKA SAINT FRANCIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $11,382,816 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $1,075,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHYDE STREET COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $735,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetAsian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc — $660,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMAITRI COMPASSIONATE CARE — $505,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNorth of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation — $378,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $345,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCURRY SENIOR CENTER — $307,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLYON-MARTIN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES — $300,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLOWER POLK COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT — $59,700 over 2y, 2.6% of budget826 Valencia — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $49,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ALCHEMY — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSF Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride Celebration Cmte — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION — $33,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAMERICAN BURN ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MARKET DBA MID MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT — $9,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRC — $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco Fou…Horizons FoundationSutter Bay HospitalsMcNabb FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…Delta Dental Communit…Dignity HealthMetta FundExtrafoodTides FoundationAmerican Online Givin…
The San Francisco FoundationCA24.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Horizons Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Dignity Health · Metta Fund · Extrafood · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Saint Francis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    15report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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