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San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and raising public awareness.

$116M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Food & Nutrition$411kHousing & Shelter$73kReligion$36k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $80,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $115,631,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,551,129 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$133M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$50,000
NORTH MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$30,000
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 (FY23–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $25k → 8%MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN: $25k → 8%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$324k · 6 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$324k
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthReligionPhilanthropyHousing & 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

  • LR
    LA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $122k · revenue +12%
  • BA
    BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $78k · revenue +26%
  • NM
    North Marin Community Services
    2× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MH
    MERCY HOUSING INC
    one grant, 2024 · $73k · revenue 0%
  • TM
    The Multicultural Center of Marin
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -39%
  • WM
    WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +52%

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
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
2
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
3
Bay Area Community Services Inc

BACS' mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing "whatever it takes." BACS helps people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or behavioural health challenges while balancing other complications like…

4
Homeward Bound of Marin

Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Larkin Street Youth Services

The mission of Larkin Street Youth Services is to create a continuum of services that inspires youth to move beyond the street. We will nurture potential, promote dignity, and support bold steps by all.

Human Services
6
Mission Action Inc

Mission action nurtures individual wellness and cultivates collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society.

Housing & Shelter
7
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services
12
Bayanihan Equity Center

The Bayanihan Equity Center provides culturally responsive services to address the needs and advance the rights of marginalized communities in pursuit of equity and justice.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Marin and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Housing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $122,400 · OtherLA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS — $16,160 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERSRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $16,000 · OtherRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTE…BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT — $13,112 · OtherBAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT FOR COMMUNITY …BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $78,400 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNIT…The Multicultural Center of Marin — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Multicultura…COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN — $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION…YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 · Human ServicesYWCA GOLDEN GATE…MERCY HOUSING INC — $73,400 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING I…North Marin Community Services — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorth Marin Co…3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER AND CLINIC — $10,000 · Youth Development3RD STREET YOU…CANAL ALLIANCE — $36,000 · ReligionWEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$167,672Health$78,400Human Services$75,000Housing & Shelter$73,400Youth Development$65,000Religion$36,000Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $122,400 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $78,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING INC — $73,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Multicultural Center of Marin — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS — $16,160 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT — $13,112 over 1y, 0.1% of budget3RD STREET YOUTH CENTER AND CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationCA20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Extrafood · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Tides Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area

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 Food Bank 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 13 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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