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Soma West Community Benefit District

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 District, and... (continued on Schedule O)

$28k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,549
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Soma West Community Benefit District funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$28k33%
FY20243$13k33%
FY20234$20k75%
FY20221$5k100%
FY20203$72kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$87kArts & Culture$34kHuman Services$14kHousing & Shelter$3kEnvironment$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kultivate Labs$31,50824%
Union Square Foundation$30,85025%
International Downtown Association$24,90030%
SOMArts$23,54940%
CounterPulse$10,00021%
West Bay Pilipino Multi-Services Inc$9,80011%
Episcopal Community Services$3,85010%
Livable City$2,80010%
The Urban Land Institute$1,33210%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Soma West Community Benefit District supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKultivate Labs: $31,508 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUnion Square Foundation: $30,850 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetInternational Downtown Association: $24,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOMArts: $23,549 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCounterPulse: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWest Bay Pilipino Multi-Services Inc: $9,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $3,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLivable City: $2,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Urban Land Institute: $1,332 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About Soma West Community Benefit District

How much does Soma West Community Benefit District give?
Soma West Community Benefit District reported 3 grants totaling $28,349 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Soma West Community Benefit District fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (63%), Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Soma West Community Benefit District's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kultivate Labs ($32k), Union Square Foundation ($31k), International Downtown Association ($25k).
Does Soma West Community Benefit District fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Soma West Community Benefit District?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Soma West Community Benefit District based?
Soma West Community Benefit District is based in CA.

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 9 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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