California · Nonprofit
SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC
SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,087,874 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE FDN DBA BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA FDN ($1,395,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What San Francisco Study Center Inc does
Mission
Promote public health - behavorial programs, tobacco free programs, disease prevention programseducational - community building programs & publications
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Editorial & publishing services and production to educate or inform on a variety of public health issues to support minority communities and housing rights for sf residents fiscal management of local non-profit programs to help them grow and behavioral health programs-advocacy program and peer conseling & therapy for hi-risk & low income.
$8,137,062 spent53% of program spendingEthnic media services promotes cross cultural communication between ethnic media and the nonprofit advocacy and grassroots service orgs. Ems provides research,reporting and translation services to ethnic media on the coronavirus pandemic. Expand career paths for ethnic media reporters through professional trainings.
$3,967,188 spent26% of program spendingDisease prevention programs -determine and implement plansto either early detect or eliminate diseases affectinglow-income residents of sf.education and mentoring programsand behavorial health programs - advocacy programs and peer conseling & therapy for hi-risk & low income
$2,916,366 spent19% of program spendingOther program services 4: editorial & publishing services and production to educate or inform on a variety of public health issues to support minority communities and housing rights for sf residents fiscal management of local non-profit programs to help them grow and behavioral health programs-advocacy program and peer conseling & therapy for hi-risk & low income.
$265,084 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,285,700.
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 $6.2M to $7.7M (+24%).
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 1% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 broadened from 5 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $34k → $1.9M.
18 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 STUDY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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 STUDY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 STUDY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 73% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% — 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
45% of SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
65% of SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 STUDY CENTER INC has grown faster than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 STUDY CENTER INC: 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 STUDY CENTER INC?
- SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC (California) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,087,874 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE FDN DBA BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA FDN ($1,395,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $12,087,874 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC?
- CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE FDN DBA BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA FDN is the largest funder on record, with $1,395,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC 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 83 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