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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.

$161k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$165kArts & Culture$86kCrime & Legal$58kCivil Rights$56kPhilanthropy$53kHuman Services$21kAnimals$7k
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SistersPerpetual Indulgence$21,283
SF LGBT Community Ctr$21,000
Castro Country Club$18,700
National AIDS Memorial Grove$17,500
Berkeley Free Clinic$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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TurnOut: $7k → 10%TurnOut: $6k → 10%National AIDS Memorial Grove: $20k → 10%National AIDS Memorial Grove: $18k → 10%National AIDS Memorial Grove: $16k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$336k · 8 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +62% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$336k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BP
    Baker Places Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +91%
  • Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic
    3× · 2017–2019 · $54k · revenue +2%
  • AL
    AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $52k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • GL
    Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +139%
  • PI
    Project Inform
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -71%
  • PA
    Pets Are Wonderful Support
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Center for Immigrant Protection

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Sunburst Projects

Sunburst Projects serves the needs of the HIV/AIDS community through compassionate care and services.

Unclassified
3
Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

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.

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4
The Spahr Center

The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.

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5
San Francisco Public Press

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…

Education
6
Transgender Law Center

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.

Civil Rights
7
San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Inc

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…

Civil Rights
8
Partnership to End Aids Status Inc

Maximize equlity in trans community

Education
9
Detour Productions

Detour Productions centers the prismatic experiences of queers & people of color through bold performance, film, and education.

Arts & Culture
10
Oakland Lgbtq Community Center Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Qcc the Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Cal-Pep Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Baker Places Inc: $54,867 · HealthBaker Places IncBerkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic: $53,533 · HealthBerkeley Community Health Project DBA Be…AIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $52,100 · HealthAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRA…PRC: $45,187 · OtherPRCSisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc: $21,283 · OtherSisters of Perpetual Ind…Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society: $11,000 · OtherGay Lesbian Bisexual Tra…Project Inform: $11,000 · OtherProject InformPets Are Wonderful Support: $7,000 · OtherPets Are Wonderful Suppo…Frameline Inc: $47,367 · Arts & CultureFrameline IncGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN GATE PERFORM…TIDES CENTER: $53,100 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERTURNOUT INC: $13,200 · Human ServicesTURNOUT INCSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $42,667 · Community ImprovementSAN FRANCI…EROTIC SERVICE PROVIDER LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $5,500 · Crime & Legal
Health$160,500Other$95,470Arts & Culture$74,867Human Services$66,300Community Improvement$42,667Crime & Legal$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaker Places Inc: $54,867 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBerkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic: $53,533 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $53,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $52,100 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFrameline Inc: $47,367 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPRC: $45,187 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $42,667 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc: $21,283 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society: $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProject Inform: $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEROTIC SERVICE PROVIDER LEGAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $5,500 over 1y, 11% 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.

Horizons FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Grass Roots Gay Right…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Horizons FoundationCA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to South of Market Merchants & Individual Lifestyle Events through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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