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SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY

SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,294,612 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,156,468). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2022
31
Funders on record
$2.3M
Grants received
$746k
Net assets
18/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($798k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($800k)2018 Revenue 117 ($931k) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 70 ($556k)2019 Revenue 147 ($1.2M) Expenses 102 ($1.2M) Net assets 70 ($560k)2020 Revenue 185 ($1.5M) Expenses 120 ($1.4M) Net assets 82 ($660k)2021 Revenue 182 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($838k)2022 Revenue 167 ($1.3M) Expenses 125 ($1.4M) Net assets 93 ($746k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (167)Expenses (125)Net assets (93)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$348k
17
$245k
18
$851
19
$99k
20
$178k
21
$92k
22
7.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $122k → $62k.

8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)72% 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 FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80% 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 FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY.

50%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 82% · 2019 55% · 2020 73% · 2021 41% · 2022 50% · 2023 26%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

27% of SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY'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 $648k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from California funders.

NV
CA
UT
DE
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.

03Its place in the field

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 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 20%Fundraising 16%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY: 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 FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY?
SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,294,612 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,156,468). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,294,612 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,156,468 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINERS ACADEMY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 31funders 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