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SF New Deal
SF New Deal (the Organization) is a California nonprofit organization operating in the city and county of San Francisco.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $429,329 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,467,214 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,037,885 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
- $10k–50k13 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oasis Arts | $50,000 |
| Devils Teeth | $50,000 |
| The Stud | $30,600 |
| Downtown Community Benefit Di | $28,992 |
| United Way Bay Area | $28,737 |
| St Anthonys Foundation | $26,000 |
| Taylor Jay Collection | $25,000 |
| Da Chang Yuan | $25,000 |
| Fatasilima Llc | $25,000 |
| Sohunan | $25,000 |
| Top Therapy Academy | $25,000 |
| Chinese Historical Society | $25,000 |
| Chuu Chuu Meat | $25,000 |
| Mid-Market Foundation | $20,000 |
| The East Cut Community Benefi | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.
SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.
Own and operate a collaborative platform anchored in san francisco chinatown that celebrates, explores, and supports leading and pioneering creative experessions at the intersection of community, culture, art and media.
consulting and presenting opportunities to artists. We promote creative expression as a means for reflection, for celebration, for economic growth and for finding solutions to the challenges that confront our communities.
SOMA West Community Benefit Districts primary exempt purpose is to advance the common good, general welfare, and quality of life of all San Franciscans and visitors to San Francisco by enhancing environmental quality and beauty in the…
San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.
Mid market community benefit district is a california nonprofit, community-based organization incorporated in february 2007, to provide programs and services to improve the overall cleanliness, safety and economic development of the mid…
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Holy Stitch Factory Fellowship. 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.
16 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. 16 of the 36 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 OASIS ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EXCELSIOR ACTION GROUP ↗
- Who funds WAH MEI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Mid-Market Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE EAST CUT COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds SOMArts ↗
- Who funds KULTIVATE LABS ↗
- Who funds CLECHA ↗
- Who funds Music City Artist Development ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC PRESS ↗
- Who funds HOLY STITCH FACTORY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds KALW PUBLIC MEDIA 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 · Civic Space Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · California Humanities · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 SF New Deal 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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