California · Public charity
San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation
The 49ers foundation harnesses football to educate and empower bay area youth and beyond through collective and innovative community-focused strategies.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,200,621
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $801k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $3.2M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $3.1M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.8M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $2.7M | 71% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $1.7M | 64% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.4M | n/a |
96% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Education$6.2MYouth Development$3.6MHousing & Shelter$1.3MHealth$1.2MCrime & Legal$911kHuman Services$621kFood & Nutrition$605kPhilanthropy$500kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2025.
| SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,200,621 |
| LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES | $271,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION | $271,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $271,000 |
| STEPHEN J WAMPLER FOUNDATION | $271,000 |
| YEAR UP INC | $271,000 |
| 826 VALENCIA INC | $102,500 |
| FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC | $100,000 |
| OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| THE GOLDEN HEART FUND | $63,819 |
| TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS | $62,832 |
| Individual grant recipient | $51,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $48,974 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| FORTY NINERS FOOTBALL COMPANY LLC | $30,000 |
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About San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation
- How much does San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation give?
- San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $3,187,986, out of $6,074,995 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Youth Development (22%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Does San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation based?
- San Francisco Forty Niners Foundation is based in CA.
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