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The Upjohn Fund of San Francisco

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$253kEducation$162kHealth$82kHuman Services$76kYouth Development$49kInternational$45kCrime & Legal$37kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$591k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$35,000
SHINING STAR FOUNDATION$10,000
ME-ONE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FOOD BANK CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO$10,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOR GENDER EQUITY AND$7,500
LAMORINDA SOCCER CLUB$7,500
NEXT STEPS LIAISON PROJECT$7,500
02The need
03

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, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%SECURE FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 9%MY NEW RED SHOES: $5k → 7%MARIN LINK INC: $5k → 8%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $8k → 8%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $8k → 8%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $5k → 8%CHILDRENS BOOK PROJECT: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$581k · 17 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
35

Total granted

$581k
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+2%

Still filing today

82%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsCrime & 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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO
    7× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +117%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    5× · 2018–2024 · $81k · revenue +68%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $69k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • TT
    TERAVANA TRUST F/K/A WELLKIND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +38%
  • TG
    The Guardsmen
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -26%

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
San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights
2
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley

The Law Foundation uses the law as a tool for change. The Law Foundation addresses problems linked to social injustices like poverty, discrimination, child abuse, and neglect. Every day, our attorneys, social workers, and advocates craft…

Crime & Legal
5
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
6
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County

We use the law to make the social safety net work for everyone in San Mateo County. We represent clients, empower people to advocate for themselves, and fix broken systems through policy change.

Crime & Legal
7
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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8
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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9
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc

CASA recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate for chidren and youth throughout their journey in foster care.

Crime & Legal
11
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
12
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake County Animal Services Dba Orphan Dog Rescue. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
12%
3,477/28,952

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
29/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $81,100 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $69,100 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKINTERNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOR GENDER EQUITY AND — $37,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK FOR GENDER EQUITY ANDMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Other+23 more — $139,700 · Other+23 moreFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $103,100 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF C…The Shining Star Foundation — $20,000 · EducationThe Shining…SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC — $17,500 · EducationSAN FRANCIS…EAST BAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS — $10,000 · EducationEAST BAY SC…SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'…Lazarex Cancer Foundation — $7,500 · EducationLazarex Can…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $5,000 · EducationFRED T KORE…FRIENDS OF FORENSICS — $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF …The Crayon Initiative — $5,000 · EducationThe Crayon …Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $20,000 · HealthCONNECTED HORSE — $12,000 · HealthTHE ME ONE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthAlzheimers Services of the East Bay — $5,000 · HealthSISTER-TO-SISTER 2 INCORPORATED — $5,000 · HealthNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSECURE FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE — $7,500 · Human ServicesMBOLDEN CHANGE — $5,000 · Human ServicesMARIN LINK INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT — $2,000 · Human ServicesNext Steps Liaison Project — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Guardsmen — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCake4kids — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTreasure Island Sailing Center Foundation — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsRising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsLamorinda Soccer Club — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsLamorinda Rugby Football Club co Andrew Parrott — $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$452,400Food & Nutrition$103,100Education$85,000Health$52,000Human Services$42,500Youth Development$38,000Recreation & Sports$36,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $103,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $81,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $69,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNext Steps Liaison Project — $25,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shining Star Foundation — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTreasure Island Sailing Center Foundation — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTERAVANA TRUST F/K/A WELLKIND TRUST — $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES — $12,200 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTED HORSE — $12,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEAST BAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Guardsmen — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ME ONE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLazarex Cancer Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECURE FAMILIES COLLABORATIVE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLamorinda Soccer Club — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSISTER-TO-SISTER 2 INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHELTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDiablo Regional Arts Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORENSICS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OTHER BAR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Assistance to the Elderly — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Sisters House — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN LINK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Crayon Initiative — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRandall Museum Friends — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANTARE CON VIVO — $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOKIDS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
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.

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 Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…Heffernan Group Found…Bothin FoundationSan Jose Mercury News…The William G Irwin C…Lowell Berry Foundati…Quest FoundationWalter and Elise Haas…
The San Francisco FoundationCA29.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Bothin Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Quest Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund

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 Upjohn Fund of San Francisco 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Upjohn Fund of San Francisco?

    Find your warmest path to The Upjohn Fund of San Francisco through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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