California · Nonprofit
SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,389 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($230,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $416k
- Net assets
- $-1630
What Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice does
Mission
The mission of the Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice is to support the needs of the traditionally underserved by providing opportunities for Dialogue, Art, Social Justice, and Community Building.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
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$72,687 spentof which $74,961 as grants59% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,616.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $27k to $78k (+188%).
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.
100% of SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cheryl Fabio
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $81k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE’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
SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 83% · 2022 80% · 2023 92% — 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
33% of SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
71% of SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE has grown faster than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
- SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $416,389 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($230,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $416,389 in grants to SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARAH WEBSTER FABIO CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing