California · Nonprofit
SF CLOUT
SF CLOUT (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,811 to it, the largest being UNITE HERE LOCAL 2 ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Sunlight Givingshared funders
- California Nurses Associationportfolio match
- United Domestic Workers of Americaportfolio match
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.
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 90% · 2018 72% · 2019 94% · 2020 90% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 93% · 2025 82%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $160k → $79k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $190k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Francisco Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SF CLOUT raised.
From the IRS filings of SF CLOUT’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
SF CLOUT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 SF CLOUT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SF CLOUT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sunlight Givingshared fundersCA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- California Nurses Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Domestic Workers of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Local 1021portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Assn of Smart No 104portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Local 2015portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation of State County AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES LOCAL 3299portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sprinkler Fitters Local 483portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern California Carpenters Regional Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SF New Dealportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tipping Point Communityshared fundersCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
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 SF CLOUT
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.
Where the money goes
97% 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 SF CLOUT: 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 SF CLOUT?
- SF CLOUT (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,811 to it, the largest being UNITE HERE LOCAL 2 ($500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SF CLOUT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $756,811 in grants to SF CLOUT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SF CLOUT?
- UNITE HERE LOCAL 2 is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SF CLOUT 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 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