California · Nonprofit
San Francisco Education Fund
San Francisco Education Fund (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,313,452 to it, the largest being SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ($119,866,293). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $142M
- Net assets
- $13M
What San Francisco Education Fund does
Mission
The San Francisco Education Fund advances equitable education by providing quality learning programs, community support, and transformative financial resources to teachers, students, and schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Quality Learning- High Impact Literacy Tutoring: The SF Ed Fund works with Stanford's National Student Support Accelerator and schools to vet providers, then with schools to qualify and select student participants, and finally with schools and providers on implementation and evaluation. San Francisco Literacy Coalition: The San Francisco Literacy Coalition unites community partners to provide strategically coordinated, highly effective reading and writing supports to students from pre-K through 5th grade to increase literacy achievement.
$1,762,188 spentof which $441,300 as grants68% of program spendingCommunity Support-General & Mindful Arts Volunteers: The SF Ed Fund's Classroom Support Program places volunteers in classrooms across 50+ schools to support students and teachers across TK-12th grade. SF Ed Fund volunteers get matched with teacher requests for support, which can include individual or small group student tutoring, general teacher support, or mentoring an individual student. Corporate Volunteers (CtS): The SF Ed Fund engages local companies to partner with San Francisco public schools through our Circle the Schools Corporate Partnerships program. Continued in Schedule O
$433,658 spent17% of program spendingFinancial Suppport-Educator Grants: The SF Ed Fund's Educator Grants support teachers, principals, and administrators at select high-need schools. Educator Impact Grants (formerly known as Create Joy Grants) empower educators to create impactful opportunities that increase student attendance, increase teacher retention, and ultimately increase student sense of belonging. Educators can apply for $5,000 for a classroom grant or up to $10,000 for a school-wide or multiple classroom grant. Continued in Schedule O
$401,946 spentof which $319,897 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,597,792.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $11M (+39%).
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 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 11% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of San Francisco Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Ann Levy Walden
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $12M → $16M.
17 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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 Education Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 Education Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 99% · 2019 86% · 2020 17% · 2021 72% · 2022 82% · 2023 75% — 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
28% of San Francisco Education Fund'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
99% of San Francisco Education Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 Education Fund runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like San Francisco Education Fund
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 Education Fund: 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 Education Fund?
- San Francisco Education Fund (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,313,452 to it, the largest being SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ($119,866,293). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Francisco Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $142,313,452 in grants to San Francisco Education Fund, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Francisco Education Fund?
- SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $119,866,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Francisco Education Fund 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 75 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