California · Nonprofit
CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC
CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,751 to it, the largest being Horizons Foundation ($341,812). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $394k
- Net assets
- $761k
What Castro Upper Market Community Benefit District Inc does
Mission
Provides services that improve the quality of life in the neighborhood, emphasizing clean, safe, beautiful streets. It also promotes the area's economic vitality, fosters the castro's unique district identity, and honors its diverse history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clean:the castro cbd keeps the district clean. The castro cleans 3 miles of sidewalk every day.cleaning services are provided from the property line to the curb line. Cleaning services includes: sidewalk sweeping, power washing, and graffiti removal. These services were provided along the frontages of each parcel within the castro cbd's boundaries. This includes maintaining a dispatch number for property owners, merchants, and residents to report cleaning-related problems on the sidewalk.
$740,612 spent60% of program spendingPublic safety and social services:the castro cares program, funded through grants and donations, is the castro cbd's homeless outreach and public safety program. Community ambassadors (unarmed ambassadors) walk the district between the hours of 7:00 a.m - 7:30 p.m. Seven days a week. They de-escalate negative street behavior, provide outreach to the unhoused, collaborate with city services, including sf police department, and respond and report incidences. The castro cbd also operates a dispatch number that is available for merchants, residents and property owners in the district to use to call for services. The focus of the community ambassadors is to create sidewalks and public spaces that feel safe and welcoming and to provide assistance to the unhoused.
$364,475 spent29% of program spendingMarketing projects include:raised funds for the colorful led uplighting of the palm trees on the market street median.ensured jane warner plaza, at the intersection of castro, market and 17th street, and harvey milk plaza are both welcoming public spaces clean and with vibrant landscaping. Managed and maintained seating and bistro tables in jane warner plaza.the I'm available campaign was kept up to date on website, tracking commercial vacancies in the district.
$134,403 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,239,490.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $515k to $826k (+60%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 2% · 2019 37% · 2020 43% · 2021 29% · 2022 45% · 2023 41% · 2024 35% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $73k → $10k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC?
- CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,751 to it, the largest being Horizons Foundation ($341,812). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $393,751 in grants to CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC?
- Horizons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $341,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASTRO UPPER MARKET COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing