California · Nonprofit
SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION
SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,307 to it, the largest being Bay Area Community Law Foundation ($258,282). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,472 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Sunlight Givingshared funders
- Right to the City Action Fundportfolio 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 5% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $68k → $52k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 TENANTS UNION’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 TENANTS UNION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TENANTS UNION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
- San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 74 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sunlight Givingshared fundersCA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Right to the City Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Realtors Issues Mobilization Political Action Comportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 6portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SF Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Pride Celebration Cmteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Smart No 104portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Right to the City Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Urban Habitat Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Regional Council of Carpentersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio 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 TENANTS UNION
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION?
- SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,307 to it, the largest being Bay Area Community Law Foundation ($258,282). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $287,307 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION?
- Bay Area Community Law Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $258,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS UNION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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