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San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$298k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$218k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of SAN FRANCISCO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $218k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$611k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2135 INDIV 1520 ADULTS 615 CHILDREN$217,812
GLOBAL SF$18,000
MOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$11,350
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CA$10,000
CHILDREN OF SHELTERS$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY$3,000
HOMEOWNERSHIP OF SF$3,000
ST ANTHONY'S FOUNDATION$2,500
APA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$2,500
SISTER CIRCLE WOMEN SUPPORT NETWORK$2,500
ASIAN INC$2,500
PACIFIC ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN BAY AR$2,300
CHINATOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY YOUTH NOW: $1k → 10%POMEROY RECREATION REHABILITATION C: $3k → 10%POMEROY RECREATION AND REHABILITATION CENTER: $1k → 10%POMEROY RECREATION REHABILITATION C: $500 → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $700 → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $50 → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $2k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE EELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%CHINESE NEWCOMERS SERVICE CENTER: $4k → 10%GUM MOON WOMENS' RESIDENCE: $2k → 10%CHINESE NEWCOMERS SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 10%CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES CENTER: $2k → 10%CHINESE NEWCOMERS SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 10%CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES CENTER: $2k → 10%GUM MOON WOMENS' RESIDENCE: $2k → 10%GUM MOON WOMEN'S RESIDENCE: $2k → 10%GUM MOON WOMEN'S RESIDENCE: $250 → 10%GUM MOON RESIDENCE HALL: $200 → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $3k → 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$771k · 52 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
102

Total granted

$771k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

Still filing today

54%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • G
    GLOBALSF
    5× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +4%
  • CO
    Children of Shelters
    7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +15%
  • SF
    San Francisco Apartment Association
    4× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • 2I
    2516 INDIV 1782 ADULTS 734 CHILDREN
    one grant, 2023 · $253k
  • 2I
    2312 INDIVIDUALS
    one grant, 2022 · $235k
  • 4F
    428 FAMILIES 830 INDIVIDUALS
    one grant, 2021 · $193k

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
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
4
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
5
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
6
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center

The center promotes the artistic and organizational growth of the San Francisco Bay Areas Asian Pacific arts community by organizing and presenting the annual United States of Asian America Festival

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
9
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco

To elevate underserved communities and gives voice to equality through education and contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
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.

12
San Francisco Community Business Resources

Educational financial resources to LMI communities

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Asian Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Community Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChinese American Community …Early Childhood and Family …Affordable Housing ProvidersImmigrant Legal ServicesVulnerable Population Healt…Community Sports & Recreati…Arts & Culture OrganizationsSan Francisco Civic Infrast…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/90
the rest of the field
11%
694/6,336

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

85 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 165 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/85
Grantees still filing
53/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

201 FAMILIES — $322,614 · Other201 FAMILIES2516 INDIV 1782 ADULTS 734 CHILDREN — $252,529 · Other2516 INDIV 1782 ADULTS 734 CHILDREN2312 INDIVIDUALS — $234,515 · Other2312 INDIVIDUALS2135 INDIV 1520 ADULTS 615 CHILDREN — $217,812 · Other2135 INDIV 1520 ADULTS 615 CHILDREN428 FAMILIES 830 INDIVIDUALS — $193,314 · Other428 FAMILIES 830 INDIVIDUALS882 FAMILIES 1431 INDIVIDUALS — $131,880 · Other882 FAMILIES 1431 INDIVIDUALSPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORCAL — $62,350 · Other+115 more — $454,284 · Other+115 moreAPA HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 · Arts & CultureCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $8,450 · Arts & CultureCatwalk for Charitable Causes — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $3,512 · Arts & CultureQCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSOMArts — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $5,360 · Arts & CultureChinese Newcomers Service Center — $7,510 · Human ServicesSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $7,300 · Human ServicesWomens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall — $5,450 · Human ServicesPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center — $4,000 · Human ServicesCharity Cultural Services Center — $3,458 · Human ServicesMission Neighborhood Centers Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,100 · Human Services+1 more — $750 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $25,080 · Recreation & SportsSf-Shanghai Association — $5,175 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $500 · Recreation & SportsASIAN INC — $15,500 · Community ImprovementASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · Community ImprovementChinese Real Estate Association of America Foundation — $2,500 · Community ImprovementBalboa Village Merchants Association — $1,500 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL HISPANIC ORGANIZATION OF REAL ESTATE ASSO — $1,250 · Community ImprovementTHE ORINDA ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Community ImprovementSAN MATEO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHINESE MEDIA ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Community ImprovementEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $10,200 · Civil RightsDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO — $8,000 · Civil RightsPRISM FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $1,650 · Civil RightsSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $5,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyROSE PAK COMMUNITY FUND — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,869,298Arts & Culture$43,822Human Services$32,068Recreation & Sports$30,755Community Improvement$28,750Civil Rights$21,850Philanthropy$19,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBALSF — $45,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetChildren of Shelters — $33,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $25,080 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Apartment Association — $17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN INC — $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAPA HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — $11,350 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBeyond Differences — $10,364 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA — $10,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budget2018 San Francisco Inaugural Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $8,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChinese Newcomers Service Center — $7,510 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $7,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition — $6,850 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $6,765 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $6,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIE L BROWN JR INSTITUTE ON POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE — $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall — $5,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSf-Shanghai Association — $5,175 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCatwalk for Charitable Causes — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco Fleet Week Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $3,512 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCharity Cultural Services Center — $3,458 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $3,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetQCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMArts — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAngel Island Immigration Station Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCollective Impact — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission Neighborhood Centers Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,400 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC ORGANIZATION OF REAL ESTATE ASSO — $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,100 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds GLOBALSF
  • Who funds Children of Shelters
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds San Francisco Apartment Association
  • Who funds ASIAN INC
  • Who funds APA HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds Beyond Differences
  • Who funds EQUALITY CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE
  • Who funds 2018 San Francisco Inaugural Fund
  • Who funds CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO
  • Who funds Chinese Newcomers Service Center
  • Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER
  • Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY
  • Who funds Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition
  • Who funds RICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
  • Who funds CHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WILLIE L BROWN JR INSTITUTE ON POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE
  • Who funds CHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION

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 FoundationCA56.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Robert J Louie Memorial Fund · Salesforce Foundation

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 San Francisco Association of Realtors 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report 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, FY2025

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 165 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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