California · Nonprofit
FACES SF
FACES SF (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,168,149 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($1,245,609). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What Faces Sf does
Mission
Our mission is to nurture, teach and empower children and families to transform their lives by providing critical assistance to low-income families with early childhood development, workforce training, school-age enrichment, and family support programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child development program - Faces Sf provides subsidized early childhood education at three sites across san francisco for infant/toddlers, preschool, and after-school enrichment for k-6th grade. Services are delivered in english, spanish, and chinese. Children are given age-appropriate learning opportunities that focus on creative expression, social and emotional development, and wellness and physical development. In addition, Faces Sf also manages a family child care network of over 37 licensed home child care providers with over 200 children from underprivileged communities. They provide quality care and education that focuses on a whole child and family wellbeing approach while placing children in culturally suitable arrangements.
$14,797,051 spent$37,042 earned by the program87% of program spendingFamily support services program - Faces Sf family support program is a family-centered program with the objective of strengthening san francisco families and communities by delivering activities and services that promote wellness, development, and stability. Our holistic approach at Faces Sf gives us the unique opportunity to positively impact the early lives of our students and support our families. Our services are offered at all of our child developmentlocations, and the experienced staff ensure outstanding program quality and outcomes. Our services are offered at all of our child development locations, and the team consists of family support specialists and a clinical support specialist supervised by the director of family support and wellness.
$1,186,085 spent7% of program spendingWorkforce development program - since 2004, Faces Sf has operated a community-based workforce development program in san francisco, with services centered in the visitacion valley neighborhood. The program provides comprehensive employment support to low-income and underserved individuals through job readiness training, education, barrier removal, referrals, job placement, and ongoing supportive services. Program participants receive individualized assistance, including resume development, job search workshops, access to computers and employment resources, job leads, and opportunities to connect with employers through hiring events and job fairs. The program works to bridge the gap between job seekers and local employers by preparing participants for sustainable employment and connecting them to (cont. On sch. O) available job opportunities. Faces Sf delivers all services in multiple languages, including english, spanish, mandarin, and cantonese, to ensure accessibility for diverse communities.
$1,039,251 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,022,387.
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 2023 to 2024, from $10M to $13M (+26%).
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 90% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 90% · 2024 91% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FACES SF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Skolnick
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $157k → $406k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 FACES SF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
FACES SF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 FACES SF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 74% · 2019 88% · 2020 84% · 2021 44% · 2022 29% · 2023 29% — 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
40% of FACES SF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
76% of FACES SF's grant income 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 7 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
FACES SF is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FACES SF
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
87% 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 FACES SF: 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 FACES SF?
- FACES SF (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,168,149 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($1,245,609). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FACES SF have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,168,149 in grants to FACES SF, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FACES SF?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,245,609 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FACES SF 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 26 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