· Public charity
San Francisco Tavern Guild Foundation
To provide a source of funds for local charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $280,908 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $553,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $272,546 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA CASA DE LAS MADRES | $29,719 |
| MUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUE | $19,666 |
| SFSPCA | $18,209 |
| ASIAN WOMENS SHELTER | $15,443 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $14,770 |
| HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM | $13,605 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $13,537 |
| SF AIDS FOUNDATION | $12,966 |
| SF WOMENS CENTER INC | $11,409 |
| THE SF FOOD BANK | $10,950 |
| SF BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $9,489 |
| COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS | $8,704 |
| SF WOMEN AGAINST RAPE | $8,400 |
| LYRIC | $8,169 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $6,824 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
La Casa de las Madres8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +75%- PPPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +38%
- TSTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- AEAIDS EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PPRCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue +84%
- HCHomeless Childrens Networkgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +25%
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.
Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.
The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
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…
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…
The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.
Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…
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,…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Community Forward SF's support services create pathways from crisis to long-term stability through our Women's Wellness Pathway, a proven continuum linking a 24/7 drop-in center, shelter, transitional housing, behavioral health care, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Prisoners Literature Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 38 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 La Casa de las Madres ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS ↗
- Who funds Coalition On Homelessness ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ST LOUIS RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN AGAINST RAPE ↗
- Who funds ROCKETDOGRESCUE ↗
- Who funds Prisoners Literature Project ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds National AIDS Memorial Inc ↗
- Who funds Native American Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AIDS EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds PRC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Childrens Network ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds Freedom for Immigrants ↗
- Who funds Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Horizons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation
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 Tavern Guild Foundation 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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