California · Nonprofit
San Francisco Achievers
San Francisco Achievers (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,728,400 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($753,471). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What San Francisco Achievers does
Mission
The mission of San Francisco Achievers is to inspire and empower African-American young men in the San Francisco Unified School District to succeed in college and postsecondary institutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Each year, SFA provides scholarships to qualified recipients who maintain a 2.5 GPA or higher and are enrolled in at least 12 academic units. Last year, SFA awarded scholarships to 23 new recipients, achieving an 84% college matriculation rate. Among active scholars, 20% were placed into internships, and students completed a collective 146 hours of Ambassador meeting engagement. SFA currently serves 83 active scholars, with six additional scholars graduating across the fall, spring, and summer terms.
$347,806 spentof which $256,125 as grants49% of program spendingDuring the 20242025 school year, SFA provided comprehensive support at Burton High School, including individualized 1:1 advising, 70 lunchtime workshops, and access to an HBCU college tour attended by two Achievers. Through this support, Burton participants achieved a 100% high school graduation rate and 100% college matriculation rate. SFA served 30 young men at Burton through a structured series of workshops focused on financial literacy, college readiness, career pathways, and socialemotional development.
$184,236 spent26% of program spendingDuring the 20242025 school year, 10 young men across SFUSD completed eight Saturday sessions over the span of eight months. These sessions included leadership training led by SFA staff, work site visits to Glacier and Recology, college tours to the University of San Francisco (USF) and UC Berkeley, and scholarship workshops designed to support students in completing applications that help reduce their financial responsibility for college. Additionally, two participants attended the HBCU college tour for expanded exposure to higher education pathways.
$89,859 spent13% of program spendingSFA's mentoring program connects scholars with volunteer mentors who guide them throughout their college journey. Through this support, scholars receive personalized feedback and advice on navigating college life and preparing for future careers. The program is opt-in, encouraging students to take ownership of their learning while actively seeking guidance. Currently, 50% of scholars are successfully matched with mentors, allowing them to build meaningful, long-term relationships, strengthen professional networks, and gain the skills and confidence needed to achieve academic and career success.
$87,692 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $709,593.
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 $1.3M to $937k (−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 19% · 2020 23% · 2021 32% · 2022 36% · 2023 17% · 2024 27% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of San Francisco Achievers’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 narrowed from 15 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $266k → $434k.
13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 San Francisco Achievers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
San Francisco Achievers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
76% 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 San Francisco Achievers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 43% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 32% · 2022 39% · 2023 23% — 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
42% of San Francisco Achievers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
67% of San Francisco Achievers'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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
San Francisco Achievers runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like San Francisco Achievers
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 San Francisco Achievers: 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 San Francisco Achievers?
- San Francisco Achievers (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,728,400 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($753,471). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does San Francisco Achievers have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,728,400 in grants to San Francisco Achievers, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Francisco Achievers?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $753,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Francisco Achievers 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 34 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