California · Nonprofit
UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC
UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,476 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($393,258). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $868k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $868k
- Net assets
- $933k
What Uptown Tenderloin Inc does
Mission
The mission of the uptown tenderloin, inc. Dba tenderloin museum (tlm) is to promote the history and character of the tenderloin neighborhood by offering educational, artistic, and charitable activities... (see sched o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The tenderloin museum is a community-centered institution dedicated to preserving the history, diversity, and resilience of one of san francisco's most vibrant and misunderstood neighborhoods. We tell stories of artists, activists, immigrant communities, and working-class life-not from the outside looking in, but in partnership with the people who live and work here. Through exhibitions, public programs, walking tours, and arts initiatives, we create meaningful cultural experiences for communities often excluded from them, while inviting the broader city to engage with the tenderloin, support local businesses, and see the neighborhood's cultural legacy in a new light.
$519,054 spent$25,452 earned by the program64% of program spendingOver the past decade, the tenderloin museum has built a strong record of community-centered arts programming that has helped transform how audiences understand the tenderloin neighborhood. What began as a small cultural initiative has grown into a dynamic institution producing 40-50 public programs annually, 5-7 gallery exhibitions, approximately 50 resident-led walking tours, and roughly 90-100 theatrical performances each year through the museum's dedicated performance venue. The museum's contemporary gallery regularly presents exhibitions featuring tenderloin artists and projects that illuminate the neighborhood's cultural history.
$100,555 spent$25,451 earned by the program12% of program spendingIn addition to exhibitions, the museum produces a wide range of public arts programming that reflects the diversity of the tenderloin community. Programs include live music performances through the sounds of the tenderloin series, film screenings, artist talks, and community celebrations that highlight the neighborhood's cultural traditions and artistic innovation.
$196,466 spent$149,082 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $816,075.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $877k to $1.1M (+30%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 32% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% · 2024 38% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $31k → $46k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC’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
UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 48% · 2019 49% · 2020 53% · 2021 63% · 2022 77% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC: 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 UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC?
- UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $868,476 to it, the largest being KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS ($393,258). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $868,476 in grants to UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC?
- KEN BIRDWELL FOUNDATION (DBA MAGIC CABINET) C/O CLARK NUBER PS is the largest funder on record, with $393,258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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