· Private foundation
San Francisco Humanities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JCF ISRAEL PROGRAMMING FUND | $15,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO HILLEL | $15,000 |
| OAKLAND HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| BRANDEIS MARIN | $12,000 |
| THE BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SF | $12,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA | $10,000 |
| JCCSF OLDER ADULTS ENRICHMENT PROGR | $9,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHEY SFARD | $7,500 |
| CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL | $7,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | $7,500 |
| CONGREGATION SHA'AR ZAHAV | $7,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $7,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization San Francisco Humanities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Francisco Humanities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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