California · Nonprofit
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND (California) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,095,032 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA MASONIC FOUNDATION ($862,045). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Giants Community Fund does
Mission
The Giants Community Fund (the "fund") uses baseball and softball to promote health, education, and character development to propel youth in underserved regions to be positive forces in their communities. The fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity, is managed by a volunteer board of directors and sustained by contributions from individuals, businesses and foundations through a number of special partnerships and fundraisers. Since its inception in 1994, the fund has donated over $40 million to community efforts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The junior giants program was established in 1994 as the fund's flagship program and annually serves over 28,000 boys and girls, ages 5 to 18 in 86 communities that span across northern california, oregon, and nevada. The program historically has relied on approximately 5,000 volunteers and staff members to run the noncompetitive leagues. The fund provides all of the uniforms, equipment, and training necessary to run a league, as well as tickets to select san francisco giants games for the youth to experience major league baseball. The program focuses on the four bases of character development - confidence, integrity, leadership and teamwork.
$2,275,265 spentof which $295,846 as grants48% of program spendingThe willie mays scholars program provides academic scholarships to underrepresented youth in san francisco and creates an opportunity for students facing obstacles to succeed in high school, college and beyond.
$267,979 spentof which $101,634 as grants6% of program spendingField renovations aims to renovate baseball fields in underserved communities.
$163,007 spent3% of program spendingOther programs consists primarily of the harmon and sue burns scholars awards program which selects ten eighth-grade junior giants each year and provides them with a $10,000 college scholarship upon high school graduation, academy program, junior giants schools, discretionary grants made by the fund to local nonprofit organizations, and other community activities.
$1,991,220 spentof which $159,934 as grants42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,697,471.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.0M to $6.3M (+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: 2019 1% · 2020 11% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Sue Petersen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $315k → $1.2M.
13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
50% 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 GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 24% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — 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
57% of GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
66% of GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: 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 GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND?
- GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND (California) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,095,032 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA MASONIC FOUNDATION ($862,045). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $7,095,032 in grants to GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND?
- CALIFORNIA MASONIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $862,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 82 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