· Public charity
The Guardsmen
To be educational, philanthropic and civic, to the end that the members shall become more efficient in their homes, broader in their sympathies, and more forceful in raising the standard of civic morality, particularly as it appertains to standards of juvenile morality, and to promote civic activities which tend to combat juvenile…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $504,498 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $995,973 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $491,475 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San SF | $221,758 |
| Catholic Charities CYO | $70,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Northern CA | $27,500 |
| Giants Community Fund | $25,000 |
| Golden Gate Area Boy Scouts | $19,000 |
| SOAR for Youth | $15,345 |
| The Okizu Foundation | $15,000 |
| Salvation Army-Golden State D | $15,000 |
| St Dorothys Rest | $14,265 |
| YMCA of San Francisco Camp J | $14,000 |
| The Bishops Ranch Camp | $13,000 |
| The Guardsmen & Okizu Fdtn | $11,015 |
| YMCA Camp Loma Mar | $11,000 |
| Camp Phoenix | $7,200 |
| Big City Mountaineers Inc | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $897k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO8× · 2017–2024 · $595k · revenue +60%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO7× · 2017–2024 · $247k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TGThe Guardsmenone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -26%
- SBSAINT BRIGID SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $6k
- AHAIM HIGHone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +19%
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.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.
To provide athletic opportunities to the youth of san francisco bay area by providing low cost opportunities to learn, play and participate in soccer by obtaining training in clinics, play and participate in leagues and tournaments.
The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…
The marin council of the boy scouts of america, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation, is chartered by the boy scouts of america to promote the scouting program in marin county.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law. scout oath: on my honor, i will do my best to do…
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…
The Mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. The vision of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare…
To instill in young people; values, develop leadership skills, and ethical character as expressed in the scout oath and law.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 47 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay ↗
- Who funds CAMP PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds TODAYS YOUTH MATTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLVENTURES ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE AREA COUNCIL #023 ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds GIRLS LEADING GIRLS ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CAMPS AND CONFERENCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE BOYS CHOIR ↗
- Who funds SEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE MESSAGES ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The James Irvine Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Janet and Clint Reilly Family 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 organization The Guardsmen 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.