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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,402,706 to it, the largest being METTA FUND ($357,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Morris Stulsaft Foundationshared funderslocal
- East Bay Foundation on Agingportfolio match
- Touchpoint Foundation - Hostportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $90k → $275k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY’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
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 54% · 2019 59% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 20% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
51% of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY'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 $684k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $719k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Morris Stulsaft Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 129 organizations near you
- East Bay Foundation on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Touchpoint Foundation - Hostportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yerba Buena Community Benefit Districtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Francisco Tavern Guild Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Senior Assistance Foundation Eastbayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Francisco Community Agencies Responding to Disasterportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Upjohn Fund of San Franciscoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of San Carlosportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Junior League of San Francisco Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodlawn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Callison Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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
- Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: 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 BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY?
- SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,402,706 to it, the largest being METTA FUND ($357,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,402,706 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY?
- METTA FUND is the largest funder on record, with $357,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY 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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing