· Private foundation
The Morris Stulsaft Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $40,000 |
| PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH MUSIC | $35,000 |
| WOMEN'S AUDIO MISSION | $35,000 |
| CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA INC | $35,000 |
| LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION AND INFORMATION CENTER(LYRIC) | $35,000 |
| EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $35,000 |
| OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $35,000 |
| COCOKIDS | $35,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $35,000 |
| MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT | $30,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE | $30,000 |
| PROJECT AVARY INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
128 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- PJPENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +4%
- BOBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +3%
- CFCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES7× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- ATAT THE CROSSROADSone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -72%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +39%- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +10%
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 California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…
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,…
To provide each student or participant with the access, skills, and opportunities needed to become successful and productive members of society, and to encourage them to have some fun along the way. The Organization offers support and…
Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.
Support and inspire children's natural curiosity and independence through free play during their out-of-school time.
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Ebayc is dedicated to supporting young people to be safe, smart, and socially responsible. ebayc offers a continuum of integrated services to a diverse membership of youth and families in oakland. our goal is to support students to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is Living Jazz. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
170 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. 170 of the 199 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RYSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Womens Audio Mission ↗
- Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC ↗
- Who funds TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
- Who funds Hack the Hood Inc ↗
- Who funds CocoKids Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds CIVICORPS ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds South of Market Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth ↗
- Who funds WU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT ↗
- Who funds Lincoln ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Arts Education Project ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
- Who funds West Contra Costa Public Education Fund ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds PAPERMILL CREEK CHILDRENS CORNER ↗
- Who funds REAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS ↗
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: Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Tipping Point Community · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long 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 Morris Stulsaft Foundation 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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