· Public charity
Yerba Buena Community Benefit District
Advance the quality of life for residents and visitors in the yerba buena neighborhood and san francisco on an ongoing basis by fostering a safer and more secure community, enhancing environmental quality and beauty, and reinforcing the viability of our economic base.
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.
The 14 grants below total $164,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $187,813 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,313 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $26,250 |
| YERBA BUENA ARTS & EVENTS DBA YERBA BUENA GARDENS FESTIVAL | $20,250 |
| CHILDREN'S CREATIVITY MUSEUM | $14,000 |
| 111 MINNA GALLERY | $12,000 |
| RENAISSANCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER | $12,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA | $11,500 |
| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| FILIPINO-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE YERBA BUENA GARDENS CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| KULTIVATE LABS | $8,000 |
| DAWN CLUB & LARK BAR | $7,500 |
| ANTHONY SCHLANDER DBA ANTHONY PRESENTS LLC | $7,500 |
| ZECHSAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INC DBA EXECUTIVE ORDER | $7,000 |
| SOUTH OF MARKET CHILD CARE 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 (FY17–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- YBYerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival7× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +53%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA7× · 2019–2025 · $107k · revenue +63%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART7× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TATENANTS AND OWNERS DEVELOPMENT CORPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +63%
- SFSan Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +51%
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.
Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.
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,…
SOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with space, mentorship, and the support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions, SOMArts…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) ↗
- Who funds YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Filipino-American Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Creativity Museum ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center ↗
- Who funds KULTIVATE LABS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds SPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Senior and Disability Action DBA Senior & Disability Action ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Livable City ↗
- Who funds TENANTS AND OWNERS DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YERBA BUENA GARDENS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds South of Market Child Care Inc ↗
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 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · California Humanities · McNabb Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Yerba Buena Community Benefit District 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.