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TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS

TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,741 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$65k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$23k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners does

Mission

Feeding the homeless population of San Francisco

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Easter, Thaknsgiving, and Christmas dinners

    $42,025 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,025.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50 → $18k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS’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

TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

57% 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 TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 77% · 2023 83% — 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

57% of TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

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CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,125 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,125 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Organizations like TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS

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04Profile & governance

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS?
TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,741 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,741 in grants to TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TENDERLOIN TESSIE HOLIDAY DINNERS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 5 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