California · Nonprofit
Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District
Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,530 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $948k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $545k
What Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District does
Mission
The Organizations mission is to create, expand, enhance, clean, and maintain open spaces, parks, play areas, plazas, parklets, gardens, sidewalk greenings, and other such physical public realm areas within the boundaries of Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill districts. The Organization promotes sound ecological practices and green infrastructure with a locally controlled, sustainable, and transparent funding structure, and supports community volunteer efforts.The Organization collaborates with landowners, tenants, developers, condominium owners, renters, and advocates for open spaces, parks, and gardens. The Organization was established to incorporate the vision of land occupiers with the Organizations vision and mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintenance: the organization hires and oversees landscape maintenance and janitorial contractors. Landscape maintenance is provided to the green spaces of dogpatch and northwest potrero hill districts. These are largely green spaces created by the gbd and neighbors on properties owned and managed by a variety of city of san francisco and california state agencies such as public works, the municipal transportation agency, caltrans, caltrain, etc. The organization provides janitorial services that includes sidewalk cleaning, trash removal, and graffiti abatement.
$439,148 spent49% of program spendingCapital projects: the organization oversees capital projects that include the creation, expansion, and improvement of public spaces parks, sidewalk gardens and other greenspaces, plazas, and pedestrian paths. The organization adds amenities such as dog runs, benches, murals and fitness equipment. The gbd completed two major projects, the minnesota flyover & potrero gateway and vermont greenway this year.
$291,420 spent32% of program spendingAccountability and citizen services: the organization connects and communicates with residents and businesses and advocates for their interests to the city of san francisco and california state departments and elected officials, bringing funding and other resources to the district and helping to facilitate district-enhancing projects. The organization nurtures community engagement and involvement with regular volunteer events and community events including block parties and cultural events including an annual music series.
$169,445 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $900,013.
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 2020 to 2021, from $650k to $1.2M (+87%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 17% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $25k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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 Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
61% of Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District: 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 Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District?
- Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,530 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $140,530 in grants to Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District 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 4 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