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Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,771 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($203,382). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $435k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $178k
What Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter does
Mission
SF Bay PSR works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival. Consequently, we promote public policies that protect human health from the threats of nuclear war other weapons of mass destruction, global environmental degradation, climate change, the epidemic of gun violence other social injustices in our society today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental Health SF Bay PSR works toward a world where everyone is free of the health harms of environmental degradation. We protect health in accord with our nations longstanding democratic values by working in local, state, national, and international arenas to influence public awareness, civic engagement, and the advancement of fair, health- and science-based, societal-wide solutions to our environmental health crises. For example, in 2024, we worked to educate the public and policy makers about the health harms of air pollution and the benefits of electric home appliances for families, particularly for our vulnerable communities, children who suffer from asthma, and elders. This work includes organizing and hosting the Environmental Health Committee meetings where community-based organizations, health professionals and advocates share and support their work, including efforts within communities and at major health institutions and universities, and medical associations and societies. Contd in Sch O.
$255,365 spent$129,136 earned by the program76% of program spendingNuclear Weapons Abolition SF Bay PSR works toward a world where everyone is free of the existential threats of nuclear weapons and proliferation. We work locally to influence public awareness, civic engagement, and national policy toward a nuclear-weapons-free world. We support the following 1. Legislation that would divert wasteful military spending to address graver threats to our country such as health crises 2. Legislation advocating for limits on sole Presidential authority to launch a nuclear attack, and for our government to declare a policy of no-first-use of nuclear weapons 3. More support for diplomacy and movement toward nuclear disarmament, including signing on to the United Nations International Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 4. Assistance and protection for communities who are harmed by nuclear industry radioactve contamination from mining, bomb testing, etc.
$41,630 spent12% of program spendingCommunity Protection SF Bay PSR works toward a world where everyone can live free from unfair treatment and the health harms of pollution. We work in close collaboration with a wide network of allies in climate, toxics, nuclear weapons, racial and social justice, including medical associations.We combine the power of community activism with the knowledge and credibility of health professionals to serve our local community-based organizations and promote public policies that support environmental health and address the compounded health burdens of our vulnerable communities living in lower-income areas with high concentrations of toxic pollution and radioactive contamination. To achieve our goals we illuminate the unfair, systemic racial, economic, and social barriers that are key determinants of health and work in collaboration with allies to address the intersection of these barriers.
$40,130 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $337,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $415k to $154k (−63%).
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: 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Marj Plumb DrPH
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $210k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $29k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Physicians for Social Responsibility). These are real filings, and they are not money Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter raised.
From the IRS filings of Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’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
Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 70% · 2023 76% — 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 Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter's funders are still giving 1 year 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
55% of Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter?
- Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,771 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($203,382). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $561,771 in grants to Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $203,382 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 10 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