California · Nonprofit
UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE
UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
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: 2019 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1.0M.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Organizations like UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Union Square Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE: 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 UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE?
- UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000,000 in grants to UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION SQUARE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT dba UNION SQUARE ALLIANCE 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 1 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing