California · Nonprofit
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being PETER L DWARES FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $382k
What Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy does
Mission
To promote the common good and social welfare of the people of San Francisco by educating the public and advocating on important issues of public policy that will improve the quality of life and governance in San Francisco.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promoted the common good and social welfare of the people of San Francisco by educating the public and advocating on important issues of public policy that will improve the quality of life and governance in San Francisco.
$1,831,389 spentof which $419,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,831,389.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $252k to $2.9M (+1056%).
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.
97% of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Jesse Cheng
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy). These are real filings, and they are not money Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy raised.
From the IRS filings of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy’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.
Where its funders are
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy's revenue grew 19% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy: 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 Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy?
- Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being PETER L DWARES FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy.
- Who is the largest funder of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy?
- PETER L DWARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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