California · Nonprofit
SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 211 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,029,228 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,512,956). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 211
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $21M
What San Francisco AIDS Foundation does
Mission
San Francisco AIDS Foundation promotes health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by hiv, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sexual health services:people living with hiv, gay, bisexual and queer men, trans and gender nonbinary people, people who inject drugs, and other communities at risk for hiv can receive judgment free hiv testing, sti screening and treatment, hepatitis c services, vaccinations, anal health care, doxy postexposure prophylaxis (pep) for sti prevention, and gender affirming care. The foundation provides pep and pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep), and has helped thousands gain access to these effective prevention tools and enroll in public programs to help pay for medications. The foundation also provides monkeypox (mpox) testing, treatment, and vaccination.
$13,392,595 spent$10,302,679 earned by the program36% of program spendingSubstance & behavioral health servicesthe foundation provides substance use treatment services, contingency management services, and walk-in group and individual counseling. We offer sterile injection equipment, proper disposal services, overdose prevention training and resources, hiv testing, opiate replacement therapy, and hepatitis c testing and treatment at our 6th street center and at several satellite sites around san francisco.
$11,982,164 spent32% of program spendingLinkage & retention services and social support services:ensuring people living with hiv have access to health care services, including housing and public benefits is a critical component of the foundation's work. The health navigation program links people living with hiv and clients taking prep to crucial social services and insurance benefits, and the foundation's housing and benefits program provides housing assistance and financial benefits counseling to san franciscans living with hiv.the foundation's community engagement and social support programs engage long-term hiv survivors and those newly diagnosed, as well as trans and gender nonbinary people, black and african american men who have sex with men, the latinx community, and black and african american women living with hiv. Through these programs, participants attend workshops, social events and support groups where they learn about risk reduction and treatment adherence.
$9,962,935 spentof which $3,054,085 as grants27% of program spendingPolicy & public educationworking in coalitions with other hiv/ aids and harm reduction organizations, the foundation's policy and advocacy team advocates for the hiv community and other priority communities at the local, state, and federal levels. The foundation's public education resources including blogs, emailed newsletters, websites, and community advertising provide audiences with the latest information about harm reduction, hiv prevention, treatment and care.the foundation's services are offered in locations around san francisco, including strut, our health & wellness center in the castro; the 6th street center in the soma/tenderloin neighborhood; the main office at 940 howard street and several satellite and popup sites around the city.
$2,182,522 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,520,216.
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.
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 $39M to $45M (+14%).
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 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 35% · 2020 35% · 2021 40% · 2022 42% · 2023 48% · 2024 50% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Tyler Termeer
CEO
Board chair
Jonathan Millard
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 55 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.0M.
26 of 211 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 AIDS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 211 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 AIDS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 AIDS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 10% · 2019 14% · 2020 66% · 2021 39% · 2022 52% · 2023 56% — 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
29% of SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION'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 $3.3M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside California, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Government funding SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
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
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Strut Sfaf LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION?
- SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 211 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,029,228 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,512,956). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 211 organizations giving $14,029,228 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,512,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 211 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing