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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $80,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $115,631,129 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $115,551,129 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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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
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
7
Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services

Resources and Community Advocacy. Serving low income youth and families in the community. Providing culturally competent and sensitivie programing based on based on the needs and resources available in Santa Clara County.

Human Services
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Marin; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Fou…ExtrafoodLeonard & Beryl Buck …Marin Community Found…Tipping Point Communi…Tides FoundationMcNabb FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…Bothin FoundationCrankstart FoundationUnited Way of the Bay…
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Francisco Food Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Francisco Food Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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