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· Private foundation
SUNSET HEIGHTS ASSN RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$79k
Granted FY2024
27
Grants
2
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of SUNSET HEIGHTS ASSN RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
homelessgardenchildrenyouthfood
2019
techhomelessgardenchildrenyouthfood
2020
incomepowerfosterfoodyouthhunger
2021
mountain'sartshistorycultureadvocacycreatingactivities
2022
studentsprofessionalsupportivefieldeconomicwomencare
2023
americansequityenvironmentalcrisiscultureasianseniors
2024
francisco baysteamschool'sfindachievementenvironmentalspecial
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 27 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- SUNSET YOUTH SERVICES$5,000
- CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$5,000
- WAH MEI SCHOOL$5,000
- SF CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$5,000
- EMPOWER ME ACADEMY$5,000
- STOP CRIME$5,000
- ON LOK$3,500
- FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION$3,000
- MOONSTAR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION$3,000
- HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO$3,000
- KID STOCK$3,000
- EARTH ISLAND INST FOR GARDEN 4 THE$3,000
- SUTRO STEWARDS$3,000
- CHINESE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY$3,000
- INNER SUNSET PARK NEIGHBORS$3,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$346k · 36 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else
36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
36
46
Total granted
$346k
$133k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+4%
+92%
Still filing today
36%
30%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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
- CACalifornia Academy of Sciences6× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +4%
- GGGolden Gate Philharmonic5× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +13%
- CYCity Youth Now4× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $7k
- SSSF SEALSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SBSENIOR BEATone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Employment
2
San Francisco Casa
San Francisco CASA (formerly San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates) transforms the lives of systems-involved and other vulnerable children, young adults and their families by providing consistent, caring volunteer advocates…
Civil Rights
3
San Francisco Public Press
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life in San Francisco by delivering public-interest journalism to broad and diverse audiences through print and interactive media not supported by advertising. The San…
Education
4
Homeownership San Francisco
Homeownership SF provides housing information, resources and referrals for affordable rental housing, first time homebuyers, and current homeowners in San Francisco.
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5
Children's Council of San Francisco
Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.
Human Services
6
Unitedly
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Human Services
7
Housing Rights Committee of
The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…
Education
8
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition
Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.
Housing & Shelter
9
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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10
Community Action Service & Advocacy
to mobilize communities to create safe and healthy neighborhoods through research, education, advocacy, and service.
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11
Empower Work Inc
To create healthy, equitable workplaces where people are valued, supported, and empowered in ways that support their economic mobility, emotional well-being, and career success through (1) Direct Service, (2) Training and Community, and 3)…
Employment
12
San Francisco Community Agencies
To ensure that those serving san francisco's vulnerable populations are prepared for a disaster.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central American Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is California Academy of Sciences. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
10%
618/6,390
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
05the grantee network
33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
27/33
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$372,400Arts & Culture$50,000Human Services$39,500Recreation & Sports$23,800Health$18,700Civil Rights$12,100Food & Nutrition$6,500
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 California Academy of Sciences ↗
- Who funds Golden Gate Philharmonic ↗
- Who funds City Youth Now ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Parks Alliance ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds ON LOK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Power California ↗
- Who funds WAH MEI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER ME ACADEMY ↗
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.
The San Francisco FoundationCA26.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Dignity Health · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Tides 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 organisation SUNSET HEIGHTS ASSN RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHINATOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +56% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 731735157 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHINATOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Sunset Heights Assn Responsible People?
Find your warmest path to Sunset Heights Assn Responsible People through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines