California · Nonprofit
Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc
Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,209,916 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($1,255,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc does
Mission
The Eviction Defense Collaborative strives to prevent homelessness, preserveaffordable housing, and protect the diversity of San Francisco. We work toward thesegoals by providing emergency rental assistance and by helping low-income tenantsgain equal access to the law in order to assert their rights in court.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In FY 22-23 EDC provided services to 2,622 unique individuals across all programs. The majority of clients served were San Francisco tenants at the highest risk of eviction and potential homelessness. Over 80% were low income, and 72% were Black, Indigenous, People of Color. 13% of clients served self-identified as LGBTQ+, 49% acknowledged having a disability, and 16% reported the need for an interpreter. EDC disbursed a total of $8,018,851 in emergency rental assistance and ongoing shallow tenant subsidies to 1025 community households residing in the City and County of San Francisco, who were at risk of eviction because they had fallen behind in their rent due to temporary financial setbacks, and/or were sufficiently rent burdened that they qualified for a shallow tenant subsidy.
$10,157,509 spent52% of program spendingLegal services including tenant counseling and full scope legal representation in an eviction matter: The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC)walk-in Right to Counsel legal clinic provided limited and pro per services to 1,094 unique individuals providing 1,118 points of limited legal services. Our Tenant Right to Counsel Litigation team closed 346 Full-Scope Legal Representation cases and provided 93 limited Scope points of service. Services delivered had a 96% rate of positive outcomes, successfully preventing displacement and homelessness for the tenants served. Legal services included full scope representation, preparing legal answers and requests for delays of sheriff evictions, representation at Mandatory Settlement Conferences, and assisting tenants in representing themselves throughout their legal process when necessary.
$8,638,469 spent44% of program spendingThe Shelter Client Advocates(SCA) program served 387 unhoused individuals residing in shelters funded by the City and County of San Francisco who were facing Denials of Service (DOS, or eviction) from such shelters. The SCA team completed 586 shelter hearings and arbitrations for Denials of Service. The SCA program provides shelter residents with due) process at shelter eviction hearings, monitors shelter conditions and the application of shelter rules, and provides informal conflict resolution between the shelter staff and residents. San Francisco is unique in the country in that it provides a formal grievance process for those who have been denied services from City funded shelters. In 2022, the San Francisco Shelter Grievance Policy was codified into law after years of advocacy by a citywide coalition of homelessness advocates, including the EDC Shelter Client Advocacy Program.
$761,867 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,557,845.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.2M to $7.7M (+47%).
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 95% · 2018 92% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 92% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% · 2024 99% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 4 funders, grant income fell $212k → $83k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Eviction Defense Collaborative 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
Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 65% · 2019 74% · 2020 51% · 2021 70% · 2022 51% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
70% of Eviction Defense Collaborative 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 $653k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Eviction Defense Collaborative 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
89% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eviction Defense Collaborative 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 Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc?
- Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,209,916 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($1,255,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,209,916 in grants to Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,255,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eviction Defense Collaborative 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 15 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