· Private foundation
San Francisco Humanities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO HILLEL | $15,000 |
| JCF ISRAEL PROGRAMMING FUND | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| THE BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SF | $12,000 |
| OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| BRANDEIS MARIN | $12,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA | $10,000 |
| JCCSF OLDER ADULTS ENRICHMENT PROGR | $9,000 |
| CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL | $7,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $7,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | $7,500 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHEY SFARD | $7,500 |
| CONGREGATION SHA'AR ZAHAV | $7,500 |
| MAGIN DAVID SEPHARDIM CONGREGATION | $7,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your 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.
40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- OHOakland Hebrew Day School8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +57%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +143%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- JIJCF ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CRCAMP RAMAH OF N CAone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Provide jewish education and cultural services to the jewish community of the s.f. bay area
To build and strengthen the Jewish community, to provide cultural, educational, social and recreational opportunities for a deeper commitment to, and greater participation in Jewish life in Sonoma County.
The mission of contra costa midrasha (ccm) is to form and inform a pluralistic jewish teen community (grades 8-12) and to develop and enhance personal jewish identity for each member of this community
To promote social welfare by providing a forum to discuss, educate the public, and advance programs that promote topical issues of interest to the jewish community in california. the foundation will promote an understanding of cultural,…
Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.
(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.
Providing social and educational activities in order to create a community for Jewish students at Sonoma State University. Primary programs include celebrating Jewish holidays as a community, holding monthly Sabbath dinners (COVID…
The mission of jewish silicon valley is to harness the power of community to improve lives, build bridges of understanding and strengthen the jewish people here, in israel, and around the world.
Adult Jewish Learning
The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Learningworks and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels Contra Costa Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 63 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 Oakland Hebrew Day School ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HILLEL ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNINGWORKS ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Koret Foundation · Howard and Irene Levine Family Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Meyer Milton Char Tuw-Main · The Sheila Reicher Fine Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · The Laszlo N Tauber Family Foundation Inc · Rmlow Foundation · New Israel 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 Humanities Inc 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.
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