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The Handlery Foundation at a glance

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The Handlery Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$990kHealth$259kHuman Services$245kEmployment$185kArts & Culture$138kInternational$109kHousing & Shelter$81kCommunity Improvement$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $201k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$20,608
CALIFORNIA HOTEL & LODGING ASSOCIATION HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION$20,367
DIRECT RELIEF$20,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$15,749
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO$15,307
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$15,307
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION (SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY)$15,307
CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$15,307
CAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION$15,307
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY$15,000
THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE$12,500
AMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $500 → 8%STREET SOCCER USA: $5k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $5k → 17%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%REALITY HOUSE WEST: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
NJ
CA
MO
KY
TN
NC
DC
HI
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 43 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
26

Total granted

$2.1M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

63%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +4%
  • University of San Francisco
    9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +14%
  • CH
    California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BA
    BELOVED ASHEVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +42%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
7
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
10
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is By the Bay Health; the most unlike its peers is California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation. 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

53 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. 53 of the 75 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $191,927 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSF STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $107,835 · OtherSF STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCAL POLY POMONA: $60,000 · OtherCAL POLY POMONASAN DIEGO STATE HOSPITALITY SCHOOL: $60,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE HOSPITALITY SCHOOLSANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY (RAYMOND H MEMORIAL): $60,000 · OtherSANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY (RAYMOND H MEMORIAL)THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION (SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY): $59,322 · OtherTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION (SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSI…CA HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $45,000 · Other+30 more: $387,933 · Other+30 moreUniversity of San Francisco: $134,382 · EducationUniversity of San FranciscoCalifornia Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation: $99,365 · EducationCalifornia Hotel & Lodging Ass…THE AHLA FOUNDATION: $90,203 · EducationTHE AHLA FOUNDATIONCALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC: $74,797 · EducationCALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAS…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $74,312 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SA…CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $59,515 · EducationCAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL…Cornell University: $21,779 · Education+6 more: $56,490 · Education+6 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $192,347 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $40,000 · HealthPlanned Paren…Homeless Prenatal Program Inc: $12,000 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+6 more: $13,000 · HealthTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $78,000 · PhilanthropyCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $60,015 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLarkin Street Youth Services: $33,000 · Human ServicesSan Francisco Safehouse: $30,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesREALITY HOUSE WEST: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesSFMade Inc: $40,500 · Community ImprovementSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · Community ImprovementUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC: $54,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,022,017Education$610,843Health$267,347Philanthropy$168,015Human Services$104,000Community Improvement$65,500Arts & Culture$59,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $192,347 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $134,382 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation: $99,365 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTHE AHLA FOUNDATION: $90,203 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $78,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC: $74,797 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $74,312 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $60,015 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $59,515 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC: $54,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSFMade Inc: $40,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Safehouse: $30,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOTEL AND RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOK PPROGRAM OF OAKLAND: $23,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCornell University: $21,779 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $14,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREALITY HOUSE WEST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral City Hospitality House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILIPPINE INTERNATIONAL AID: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaraja Education Fund: $500 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.

  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE AHLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SFMade Inc ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds San Francisco Safehouse ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOTEL AND RESTAURANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
  • Who funds OK PPROGRAM OF OAKLAND ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds DELANCEY STREET CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…East Bay Community Fo…Crankstart FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Tipping Point Communi…United Way of the Bay…The Bessemer Giving F…McNabb FoundationThe California Wellne…
The San Francisco FoundationCA26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · United Way of the Bay Area · The Bessemer Giving Fund · McNabb Foundation · The California Wellness 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 The Handlery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Handlery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 75 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-PF 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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