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$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$94k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$693kHealth$307kInternational$83kFood & Nutrition$50kYouth Development$36kEducation$32kRecreation & Sports$27kArts & Culture$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $197,454, the rows itemized in this filing. The $233,102 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,648 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SF ROTARY SERVICE$93,954
ALLIANCE FOR SMILES$20,000
ARC SF DINNER CLUB$18,500
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROJECT$12,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK$10,000
BUILDING EDUCATION FOR FUTURE$9,000
SF PARKS ALLIANCE$8,500
ROTAPLAST$8,000
SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $13k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $12k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $12k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $9k → 10%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+3%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • RS
    ROTARY SERVICE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $666k · revenue +12% · 49% of their budget
  • Homeless Prenatal Program Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +20%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • B
    BAYORG
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue 0%
  • AI
    AYUDA INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k
  • SB
    Smuin Ballet
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +3%
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
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
5
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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6
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
7
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment
8
Volunteers in Medicine - San Francisco

To understand and serve, with dignity and respect, the health and wellness needs of the medically underserved in the san francisco bay area.

Health
9
South San Francisco Rotary Foundation
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10
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
11
Tipping Point Community

We build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions.

Philanthropy
12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Building Education. 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTARY SERVICE INC: $666,067 · Community ImprovementROTARY SERVICE INCRotary Club of Los Angeles: $27,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR SMILES INTERNATIONAL INC: $55,000 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR SM…ROOTS OF PEACE: $42,870 · InternationalROOTS OF PEACEROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 · InternationalROTAPLAST INTER…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $36,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUN…THE SALVATION ARMY: $60,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION…SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $50,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO…ROTACARE BAY AREA INC: $20,000 · OtherROTACARE BAY …ROTAPLAST: $8,000 · OtherAYUDA INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $7,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $65,833 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE ON AGING: $30,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $68,333 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $34,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $15,372 · EducationBUILDING EDUCATION: $9,000 · EducationBAYORG: $14,333 · Arts & CultureSmuin Ballet: $6,333 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$693,067International$173,870Other$153,000Human Services$95,833Health$68,333Recreation & Sports$34,000Education$24,372Arts & Culture$20,666

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROTARY SERVICE INC: $666,067 over 6y, 49% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $68,333 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $65,833 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SMILES INTERNATIONAL INC: $55,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS OF PEACE: $42,870 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $34,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Los Angeles: $27,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetROTACARE BAY AREA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $15,372 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBAYORG: $14,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING EDUCATION: $9,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSmuin Ballet: $6,333 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.

McNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
McNabb FoundationDE19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Francisco Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 20 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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