· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $1,034,010 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,135,410 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $101,400 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $941k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO SEALS | $225,000 |
| RENEGADE GIRLS | $220,000 |
| KID STOCK PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS | $156,240 |
| GIRLS LEADING GIRLS SUMMER CAMP | $86,900 |
| GOLDEN GATE SOCCER CAMP | $72,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO VIKINGS SOCCER CLUB | $66,500 |
| SF GLENS SUMMER SOCCER CAMP | $63,350 |
| SF HAWKS YOUTH FIELD HOCKEY CAMP | $50,400 |
| TREE FROG TREKS LLC | $48,870 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $44,250 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k 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
- SFSan Francisco United Soccer Club3× · 2021–2023 · $608k · revenue +25%
- KSKID STOCK INC2× · 2021–2022 · $281k · revenue +39%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO VIKINGS SOCCER CLUB INC3× · 2021–2023 · $189k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BIBRAINVYNE INCone grant, 2021 · $450k
- AFALLIANCE FRANCAISEone grant, 2021 · $235k · revenue -13%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO SOCCER CAMPone grant, 2021 · $224k
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.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
An intentionally small community where young people are valued as individuals. A compassionate team of educators approach academic & social-emotional development with the aim of cultivating justice-seeking humans empowered to transform…
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.
To develop, promote and administer elite soccer training for san francisco youth (boys and girls).
Kiddie Kampus is a cooperative, play-based preschool located in Alameda for children ages 2 years 9 months to 5 years old. We work together to create a nurturing, engaging preschool environment that prepares our children for kindergarten…
The school was organized to provide a pre-school educational experience and opportunities for young children in the greater san francisco bay area.
Cypress school of san francisco is a play based full day program, serving children aged 2-5.9 years old. we are a parent participation school with a low teacher to child ratio and licensed master teachers on staff.
The purpose of this Association shall be to develop, promote and administer the game of soccer among youth (boys and girls under nineteen (19) years of age), regardless of race, color religion, age, sex, or national origin within territory…
The Montessori Method helps all children become truly capable and productive individuals by focusing on their moral, behavioral, emotional, and intellectual development. Our Montessori Guides are Association of Montessori Internationale…
The family school is dedicated to providing a superior environment of child centered academic and creative programs which inspire a joy of learning and support critical thinking. we strive to prepare students to be compassionate,…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco School and the most unlike its peers is The Parents & Teachers of Buena Vista Horace Mann. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 32% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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. 19 of the 57 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.
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 RENEGADE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds San Francisco United Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds KID STOCK INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO VIKINGS SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS LEADING GIRLS ↗
- Who funds PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds BAYORG ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JUNIOR GLENS SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Institute for Applied Tinkering ↗
- Who funds Harvey Milk Parent Faculty Club ↗
- Who funds MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs - Community Education 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.
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
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 Education Fund 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.
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.