California · Nonprofit
Community Forward SF Inc
Community Forward SF Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,164 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($200,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Community Forward SF Inc does
Mission
Community Forward SF's support services create pathways from crisis to long-term stability through our Women's Wellness Pathway, a proven continuum linking a 24/7 drop-in center, shelter, transitional housing, behavioral health care, and flexible financial assistance for permanent housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical Respite and Sobering Center:Community Forward SF's Medical Respite and Sobering Center offers short-term, compassionate care for individuals experiencing homelessness. In partnership with the SF Department of Public Health, Medical Respite provides a safe space to recover from illness or injury with access to medical care and wraparound support. The Sobering Center offers a supervised environment for individuals facing addiction and homelessness to safely detox and stabilize. While sobriety is not required, we provide tools, counseling, and referrals for those seeking long-term recovery. Both programs reduce ER visits and interactions with police and EMS, saving city resources and connecting participants to long-term care and housing. Respite beds cost less than 10% of a hospital stay, providing a cost-effective and humane alternative for some of the city's most medically vulnerable residents.
$5,278,575 spent34% of program spendingA Woman's Place Drop-In Center:A Woman's Place Drop-In Center (AWP) is a low-barrier, trauma-informed space rooted in dignity, compassion, and care. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, AWP offers women experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, or other systemic challenges a safe and welcoming environment where their needs are met with respect and cultural humility. The Center provides immediate necessities-such as respite, food, showers, and hygiene supplies-alongside deeper support through case management, housing navigation, clinical services, and peer-led groups. AWP is not just a refuge, but a community hub where women can reconnect to themselves and others, shape the programming they want to see, and take steps toward healing and stability on their own terms.
$5,499,548 spent36% of program spendingHousing Subsidy Programs:In partnership with the City of San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), we offer two housing subsidy programs to support trans individuals, gender-nonconforming people, and women in securing permanent supportive housing: Ending Trans Homelessness and Women's Flex. These initiatives will provide stable housing for up to 112 people annually, offering a critical lifeline to those most in need.Through these programs, Community Forward has built a strong team and forged key partnerships with landlords across the city to expand access to safe, stable housing. Participants receive case management, health referrals, and support securing stable housing-including help with housing searches, rental subsidies, barrier removal funds, and landlord mediation. A Women's Place Shelter & Transitioning Housing:A Woman's Place Transitional Housing Program offers women experiencing homelessness a safe, supportive, and structured environment where they can begin to rebuild their lives with stability and purpose. Rooted in trauma-informed and person-centered care, the program provides longer-term housing and wraparound services to help…
$1,888,655 spent$126,176 earned by the program12% of program spendingPermanent Supportive Housing:Community Forward SF recognizes that homelessness is deeply isolating and traumatic-and that the need for support doesn't end once someone is housed. That's why we operate two permanent supportive housing sites-Coronado Housing and Eddy Street Apartments-designed for individuals facing complex barriers to stability. Our programs combine long-term housing with trauma-informed services, including mental health care, crisis intervention, substance use referrals, benefits counseling, employment support, and access to food resources. We meet people where they are, offering stability and care so they can heal, build community, and define their own goals in a place they can finally call home.
$2,664,285 spent$62,796 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,331,063.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.4M to $30M (+307%).
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 91% · 2018 92% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% · 2024 93% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Community Forward SF Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $35k → $265k.
14 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Community Forward SF 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
Community Forward SF Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% 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 Community Forward SF Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 61% · 2019 54% · 2020 52% · 2021 58% · 2022 75% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
30% of Community Forward SF Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of Community Forward SF 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. Of the $462k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Community Forward SF Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Forward SF Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Women's Forward Fund · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Forward SF 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 Community Forward SF Inc?
- Community Forward SF Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,086,164 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($200,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Community Forward SF Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,086,164 in grants to Community Forward SF Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Forward SF Inc?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Forward SF 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 28 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