California · Nonprofit
URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO
URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,533,456 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,433,243). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Urban School of San Francisco does
Mission
The Urban School of San Francisco seeks to ignite a passion for learning, inspiring its students to become self-motivated, enthusiastic participants in their education - both in high school and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1966, urban offers a demanding college preparatory program in the arts, english, history, languages, sciences and mathematics. Incoming students are issued state of the art laptop computers for school and home use to help fully integrate technology into the curriculum. The school fields interscholastic teams in many sports and provides numerous extracurricular opportunities for student leaders, writers and performers. Through fieldwork, community service and internships, students explore and contribute to our own haight-ashbury neighborhood, as well as to the larger community. Urban has a faculty of 58 full and part time teachers and 424 students in grades 9 through 12. The teacher student ratio is 1:10. (continued on schedule o)the Urban School of San Francisco is accredited by the western association of schools and colleges (wasc) and is a member of the national association of independent schools (nais), the california association of independent schools (cais), the council for the advancement and support of education (case), and the secondary school admission test board. Urban is also a member of a better chance (abc), the bay counties league (bcl). The Urban School…
$27,231,364 spentof which $5,229,931 as grants$27,618,389 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,231,364.
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 2022 to 2023, from $94M to $121M (+29%).
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.
9% of URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Carl Shannon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.1M.
23 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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
URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% 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 URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 36% · 2019 30% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% — 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
56% of URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
83% of URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO'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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside California, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO's revenue grew 40% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The 1565 Blues LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO?
- URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,533,456 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,433,243). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $17,533,456 in grants to URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,433,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO 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 57 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