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San Francisco Education Fund

The San Francisco Education Fund advances equitable education by providing quality learning programs, community support, and transformative financial resources to teachers, students, and schools.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
10
Itemized grants FY2023
10
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$1.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$72,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$225,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations San Francisco Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202310$1.0M60%
FY202221$2.5M29%
FY202133$4.2M97%
FY20204$50k25%
FY20194$169k100%
FY20185$54k100%
FY20173$40kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$2.5MRecreation & Sports$1.7MYouth Development$1.7MArts & Culture$678kEnvironment$631kHealth$450kCommunity Improvement$155kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco High School of the Arts$1,515,6002n/a
Renegade Girls$660,500376%
San Francisco United Soccer Club$607,500311%
Brainvyne Inc$450,0001n/a
Kid Stock Inc$280,740221%
Alliance Francaise$235,000123%
San Francisco Vikings Soccer Club Inc$189,25035%
Girls Leading Girls$178,100212%
Presidio Knolls School Inc$167,47011%
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum$143,58021%
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All grantees of San Francisco Education Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco High School of the Arts$1,515,6002n/a
Renegade Girls$660,500376%
San Francisco United Soccer Club$607,500311%
Brainvyne Inc$450,0001n/a
Kid Stock Inc$280,740221%
Alliance Francaise$235,000123%
San Francisco Vikings Soccer Club Inc$189,25035%
Girls Leading Girls$178,100212%
Presidio Knolls School Inc$167,47011%
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum$143,58021%
Bayorg$142,50021%
Children's Day School Inc$131,58011%
San Francisco Junior Glens Soccer Association$108,35023%
Institute for Applied Tinkering$102,40013%
Harvey Milk Parent Faculty Club$88,941221%
Mission Economic Development Agency$76,20010%
Tournament Players Club of California Inc$25,8661n/a
Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation$25,00013%
The Parents & Teachers of Buena Vista Horace Mann$12,47217%
The San Francisco School$12,00010%
Sfusd$10,0001n/a
United Playaz$7,50010%
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$5,05210%

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

San Francisco Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenegade Girls: $660,500 over 3y, 76% of budgetSan Francisco United Soccer Club: $607,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetKid Stock Inc: $280,740 over 2y, 21% of budgetAlliance Francaise: $235,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSan Francisco Vikings Soccer Club Inc: $189,250 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetGirls Leading Girls: $178,100 over 2y, 12% of budgetPresidio Knolls School Inc: $167,470 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSan Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum: $143,580 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBayorg: $142,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetChildren's Day School Inc: $131,580 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Francisco Junior Glens Soccer Association: $108,350 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetInstitute for Applied Tinkering: $102,400 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHarvey Milk Parent Faculty Club: $88,941 over 2y, 21% of budgetMission Economic Development Agency: $76,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAsian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Parents & Teachers of Buena Vista Horace Mann: $12,472 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetThe San Francisco School: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Playaz: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of San Francisco: $5,052 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA17.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Daffy Charitable Fund · The Yelp Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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.

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About San Francisco Education Fund

How much does San Francisco Education Fund give?
San Francisco Education Fund reported 10 itemized grants totaling $1,034,010, out of $1,135,410 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does San Francisco Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (32%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Youth Development (21%).
Who are San Francisco Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: San Francisco High School of the Arts ($1.5M), Renegade Girls ($661k), San Francisco United Soccer Club ($608k).
Does San Francisco Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as San Francisco Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Salesforce Foundation, Crankstart Foundation.
Where is San Francisco Education Fund based?
San Francisco Education Fund is based in CA.

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 57 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $761k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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