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· Public charity
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
To inspire and serve audiences and communities throughout the bay area (continued on sch o) and the world through the power of musical performance.
$64k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Education$15kArts & Culture$10kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$10kOther$18k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
free accessaccess selectselect performances
2020
encourage participationparticipation arts
2021
encourage participationparticipation arts
2022
encourage participationparticipation arts
2023
encourage participationparticipation arts
2024
encourage participationparticipation arts
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$426M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAMBER MUSIC ACADEMY$18,000
- OAKLAND SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$15,000
- YOUTH ART EXCHANGE$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Theatre Bay Area
Theatre Bay Areas mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy…
Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.
Education
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Inspire diverse audiences through exhibitions, education, publications & collections.
Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Classical Voice
SFCV's mission is to engage audiences, artists, and arts organizations, and forge meaningful connections through music journalism.
Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association
The world-renowned san francisco opera is considered one of the most important operatic organizations in the united states. great singing, outstanding conducting and productions sensitive to the music are core values of the opera. the…
Arts & Culture
6
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.
Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
8
Marin Theatre Company
Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…
Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Ballet Association
Sf ballet's mission is to share our joy of dance with the widest possible audience. (see sch. o) sf ballet aims to reach audiences both locally and around the world, and to provide the highest caliber of dance training in our school. we…
Arts & Culture
10
Bay Area Community Concert Band
Arts & Culture
11
Oakland Museum of California
To inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities.
Arts & Culture
12
Silicon Valley Visual Arts
Our mission is to support and promote the visual arts as a vital ingredient of the unique and diverse society of the bay area. we help both emerging and professional artists connect with other artists and art lovers throughout the bay…
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Bay Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$18,000Education$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Human Services$10,000
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.
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.
The San Francisco FoundationCA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OAKLAND SYMPHONY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +62% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 943081554 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on OAKLAND SYMPHONY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to San Francisco Symphony?
Find your warmest path to San Francisco Symphony through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines