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The San Francisco Foundation

THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION mobilizes resources and acts as a catalyst for change to build strong communities, foster civic leadership, and promote philanthropy.

$221M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,707
Grants FY2025still arriving
49
States reached
$21M
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$282MPhilanthropy$248MArts & Culture$187MHousing & Shelter$159MHealth$139MCommunity Improvement$92MEnvironment$71MCivil Rights$71MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1707 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k132 grants · $921k
  • $10k–50k904 grants · $18M
  • $50k–250k484 grants · $49M
  • $250k+187 grants · $151M
$26,000
Median grant
49
States reached
$1.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$21,128,283
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$5,685,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$4,846,820
GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$4,189,735
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,925,075
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,160,500
UCSF FOUNDATION$3,072,294
WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION$3,000,000
COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS$2,601,000
CATE SCHOOL$2,532,000
CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$2,522,694
CENTER FOR THE ART OF TRANSLATION$2,040,241
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,871,453
TIDES CENTER$1,770,250
THE ANTI POLICE-TERROR PROJECT$1,675,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $52.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $650k → 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $520k → 11%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $815k → 12%REALIZE IMPACT: $501k → 10%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $440k → 12%KOREAN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $400k → 14%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $500k → 22%NPH ACTION FUND POLITICAL ISSUES COMMITTEE: $778k → 12%NPH ACTION FUND POLITICAL ISSUES COMMITTEE: $700k → 12%SOCIAL FINANCE: $500k → 16%YOUTH TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATION: $680k → 8%MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN: $469k → 8%YOUTH TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATION: $382k → 8%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $470k → 10%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $456k → 14%ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ACTION: $375k → 14%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $594k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $565k → 10%UPTOGETHER: $1.5M → 10%TIDES CENTERLEADERSHIP LEARNING COMMUNITY: $1.1M → 10%UPTOGETHER: $1.0M → 10%NPH ACTION FUND: $1.0M → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $700k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.6M → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.6M → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $758k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $613k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $409k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $356k → 10%INSIGHT HOUSING: $660k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1.6M → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1.1M → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $930k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $642k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $434k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $355k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $2.2M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $474k → 10%THE TIDES CENTER: $360k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $400k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $1.0M → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $535k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $527k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $747k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $702k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $370k → 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

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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The San Francisco Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The San Francisco Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2B · 1580 repeat orgs$73M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

1580 repeat relationships: 1005 still active in FY2025, 575 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1580
264

Total granted

$1.2B
$59M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+1%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60M · revenue +189%
  • CATE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +51%
  • MA
    MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +42% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • ME
    MARGARET E HAAS FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $4.8M · revenue -45% · 67% of their budget
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $3.3M
  • AF
    ARCS FOUNDATION INC ATLANTA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2.7M · revenue +17%
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
California Forward

California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.

Public Benefit
3
California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education
4
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
5
The American Institute of Architects

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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6
California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech
7
350 Bay Area

We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Environment
8
California Changelawyers

California changelawyers is a statewide foundation whose mission is to build a better justice system for all californians. changelawyers empowers the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists to create a more diverse legal…

Social Science
9
Institute for Public Strategies

to work alongside communities to build power, challenge systems of injustice, protect health, and improve quality of life.

Health
10
California Coastkeeper

California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…

Environment
11
Center for Domestic Peace

Center for Domestic Peace mobilizes individuals and communities to transform our world so domestic violence no longer exists, creating greater safety, justice, and equality.

Human Services
12
CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Acting in Community Together; the most unlike its peers is Wadhwani Institute for Artificial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1867 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1867 of the 2,000 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)
495
Early backer (in before they grew)
1829/1867
Grantees still filing
1317/1867
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $66,505,124 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVI…MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $41,599,127 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $34,675,369 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23,152,477 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $21,787,065 · PhilanthropyTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUN…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $11,867,469 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $11,453,667 · Philanthropy+18 more: $56,255,680 · Philanthropy+18 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $59,908,977 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $26,141,679 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …CATE SCHOOL: $20,343,800 · EducationCATE SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,073,673 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $13,398,543 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF …THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $9,759,442 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $8,311,404 · Education+26 more: $79,733,649 · Education+26 moreCITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $14,585,083 · OtherBay Area Community Services Inc: $12,232,766 · Other+84 more: $270,095,727 · Other+84 moreSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $11,320,334 · Arts & CultureCenter for the Art of Translation: $11,058,236 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $9,459,374 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $7,821,679 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $5,712,774 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $4,054,574 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,800,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $3,235,332 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $3,096,657 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $2,980,130 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $2,900,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $15,297,906 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $13,981,272 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC: $11,000,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINK: $7,394,907 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $4,598,354 · Community ImprovementMain Street Launch: $4,570,000 · Community ImprovementSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $3,669,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Habitat Program: $3,564,187 · Community ImprovementOCCUR: $2,762,500 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $2,232,800 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $2,100,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $6,932,420 · Community ImprovementTIDES CENTER: $12,485,175 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5,612,093 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $3,708,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3,397,901 · Human ServicesNPH Action Fund: $3,279,500 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL: $3,087,123 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2,999,725 · Human ServicesMujeres Unidas y Activas: $2,897,794 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $2,660,827 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,021,680 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $1,914,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,910,000 · Human ServicesDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $1,850,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $1,725,000 · Human ServicesMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $14,404,300 · HealthCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $5,846,400 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,788,073 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,516,805 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $3,355,560 · HealthWorking Partnerships USA: $2,786,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,468,838 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $2,235,500 · HealthCalifornia School-Based Health Alliance: $2,000,000 · Health
Philanthropy$267,295,978Education$237,671,167Other$296,913,576Arts & Culture$80,736,996Community Improvement$62,805,440Human Services$49,549,418Health$42,401,476

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $66,505,124 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $59,908,977 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $41,599,127 over 8y, 14% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $34,675,369 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $26,141,679 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23,152,477 over 9y, 29% of budgetTOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $21,787,065 over 8y, 83% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $20,343,800 over 9y, 14% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,073,673 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $14,404,300 over 8y, 27% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $13,981,272 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $13,398,543 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $12,485,175 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc: $12,232,766 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $11,867,469 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $11,453,667 over 9y, 11% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $11,320,334 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetCenter for the Art of Translation: $11,058,236 over 9y, 55% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $11,000,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $9,759,442 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING ACCELERATOR FUND: $9,680,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetWADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION: $9,600,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $9,459,374 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $8,450,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $8,311,404 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $8,240,000 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC: $8,190,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $7,821,679 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $7,531,337 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetCORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $7,411,386 over 4y, 54% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $7,394,907 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $6,720,541 over 9y, 10% of budgetMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $6,335,161 over 7y, 19% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $5,994,500 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $5,846,400 over 9y, 11% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,788,073 over 9y, 22% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $5,712,774 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5,612,093 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,593,350 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetEDUCATION REIMAGINED: $5,575,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,419,049 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $5,310,250 over 5y, 35% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $5,049,300 over 9y, 21% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND: $4,944,166 over 4y, 11% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER: $4,919,917 over 8y, 14% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,919,699 over 9y, 24% of budgetMARGARET E HAAS FUND: $4,800,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetGeorge Washington High School Alumni Association: $4,747,919 over 9y, 52% 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TOMKAT RANCH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds Center for the Art of Translation ↗
  • Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING ACCELERATOR FUND ↗
  • Who funds WADHWANI INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗

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.

Crankstart FoundationWalter and Elise Haas…Tipping Point Communi…The Zellerbach Family…Akonadi FoundationBothin FoundationUnited Way of the Bay…The Morris Stulsaft F…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Evelyn and Walter Haa…Metta FundStupski Foundation
Crankstart FoundationCA121.4× affinity181 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crankstart Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Tipping Point Community · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · Bothin Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Metta Fund · Stupski 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 San Francisco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The San Francisco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pacific University: 2% of income from government
  • New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
64report 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 2000 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home