· Public charity
San Francisco Consumer Action
To empower consumers to achieve financial security through education and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $6,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $55,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDENTITY THEFT RESOURCE CENTER | $6,200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of San Francisco Consumer Action’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +364%
- PCPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +11%
- ESEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC2× · 2021–2023 · $17k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CFConsumer Federation of Americagraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +380%
- OTONE TREASURE ISLANDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -9%
- HOHOUSING OPTIONS & PLANNING ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Consumer education services, inc. empowers people to overcome their financial challenges and lead financially-healthy lives.
Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Hcs provides comprehensive counseling, training and technical assistance to support enduring, healthy, safe and affordable homes for homebuyers, homeowners, tenants and the homeless.
To promote economic development and financial literacy for low-income people, people of color, and those who live in economically depressed areas.
Stimulate overall economic development through creation of enterprises, generation of jobs and improvement of services. Mission accomplished through community development projects, education, training, entrepreneurial loan program, and…
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.
To build livable and economically viable communities in the low income areas of This is accomplished by Greater Los Angeles strengthening the skils and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses of residents, businesses and community…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To increase the availability of affordable, safe housing options for low-to-moderate income families, by providing assistance to those who wish to become renters or homeowners through a variety of wealth-building programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopes Community Action Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Consumer Federation of America ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ENTERPRISE TRAINING & SERVICES GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREASURE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS & PLANNING ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HAVEN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY THEFT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELHI CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Consumer Action 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.
- Hopes Community Action Partnership — 47% of income from government
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.
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