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South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events
Folsom Street is a 501c3 non-profit arts and culture organization that produces iconic events that benefit our whole community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SistersPerpetual Indulgence | $21,283 |
| SF LGBT Community Ctr | $21,000 |
| Castro Country Club | $18,700 |
| Berkeley Free Clinic | $17,500 |
| National AIDS Memorial Grove | $17,500 |
| AIDS Legal Referral Panel | $17,000 |
| Frameline | $15,000 |
| Positive Resource Center | $13,500 |
| San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus | $13,500 |
| TurnOut | $6,200 |
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 (FY17–19, $66k) 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.
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 +75% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- BPBaker Places Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +91%
Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic3× · 2017–2019 · $54k · revenue +2%- ALAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA3× · 2017–2019 · $52k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- PIProject Informone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -71%
- GLGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Societygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +139%
- PAPets Are Wonderful Supportone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
The LGBTAP is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gener identity and/or HIV…
Sunburst Projects serves the needs of the HIV/AIDS community through compassionate care and services.
The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.
The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.
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…
Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
San diego lesbian gay bisexual transgender pride, inc. is a non-profit volunteer-led human rights and arts & culture organization. its mission is to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…
Maximize equlity in trans community
Detour Productions centers the prismatic experiences of queers & people of color through bold performance, film, and education.
The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related…
Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the artistic and financial development of queer art and culture. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect and mobilize trans & queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.
Calpep is dedicated to providing coordinated hiv, substance abuse, mental health, employment support, and violence prevention services to the highest need communities of color in the san francisco bay area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Project Inform. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 Baker Places Inc ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Frameline Inc ↗
- Who funds PRC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Inform ↗
- Who funds Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society ↗
- Who funds EROTIC SERVICE PROVIDER LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
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: Horizons Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events 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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