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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...

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$9,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOMArts Cultural Center$13,549
West Bay Pilipino Multi Service Cor$9,800
International Downtown Association$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Episcopal Community Services: $4k → 10%Union Square Foundation: $31k → 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 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.

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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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2
Advance Sf

Advance SF 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. The…

Human Services
3
Intersection for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
4
ArtSpan

ArtSpan builds community by connecting the public to visual arts in san Francisco. Through SF Open Studios, youth and adult education, and art-centric events, ArtSpan creates a platform for artists to thrive, fostering a Bay Area that…

Unclassified
5
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
6
San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Hub for Urban Initiatives
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8
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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10
The Urbanist

Seattle-based online publication seeking to examine and influence urban policies.

Community Improvement
11
Kearny Street Workshop Incorporated

Ksw makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. since 1972, ksw has nurtured the creative spirit, and offered an important platform for new voices to be heard -full statement on schedule o

Arts & Culture
12
Kala Art Institute

Kala Art Institute's mission is to help artists sustain their creative work over time through its Artist-in-Residence and Fellowship Programs, and to engage the community through exhibitions, public programs and education.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is SOMArts; the most unlike its peers is International Downtown Association. 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $24,900 · OtherINTERNATIONAL DOWNTOWN ASSOC…CounterPulse: $10,000 · OtherCounterPulseUNION SQUARE FOUNDATION: $30,850 · Human ServicesUNION SQUARE FOUNDATIONEpiscopal Community Services: $3,850 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Community ServicesKULTIVATE LABS: $31,508 · Community ImprovementKULTIVATE LABSSOMArts: $23,549 · Arts & CultureSOMArtsWest Bay Pilipino Multi-Services Inc: $9,800 · HealthLivable City: $2,800 · Public BenefitTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE: $1,332 · Environment
Other$34,900Human Services$34,700Community Improvement$31,508Arts & Culture$23,549Health$9,800Public Benefit$2,800Environment$1,332

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

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
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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Soma West Community Benefit District funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Soma West Community Benefit District. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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