California · Public charity
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $80k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $133M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations San Francisco Food Bank funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $244k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $196k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Raza Community Resource Center | $122,400 | 3 | 2% |
| Bay Area Community Resources Inc | $78,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Housing Inc | $73,400 | 1 | 0% |
| North Marin Community Services | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Canal Alliance | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Multicultural Center of Marin | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| West Marin Community Services | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Action Marin | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Women's Centers | $16,160 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Raza Community Resource Center | $122,400 | 3 | 2% |
| Bay Area Community Resources Inc | $78,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Housing Inc | $73,400 | 1 | 0% |
| North Marin Community Services | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Canal Alliance | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Multicultural Center of Marin | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| West Marin Community Services | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Action Marin | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Women's Centers | $16,160 | 2 | 0% |
| Richmond District Neighborhood Center Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bayview Hunters Point for Community Improvement | $13,112 | 1 | 0% |
| 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget San Francisco Food Bank supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About San Francisco Food Bank
- How much does San Francisco Food Bank give?
- San Francisco Food Bank reported 2 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $115,631,129 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does San Francisco Food Bank fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (79%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Religion (7%).
- Who are San Francisco Food Bank's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: La Raza Community Resource Center ($122k), Bay Area Community Resources Inc ($78k), Mercy Housing Inc ($73k).
- Does San Francisco Food Bank fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as San Francisco Food Bank?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Extrafood, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation.
- Where is San Francisco Food Bank based?
- San Francisco Food Bank is based in CA.
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