Sf New Deal
San Francisco, CA · EIN 85-0498939. Reported 36 grants totalling $1,183,989 to 36 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Sf New Deal, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $28,864. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $65,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 710 Sf Inc | San Francisco, CA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brothers for Change Inc | San Francisco, CA | $57,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Devils Teeth | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Victoria Sf | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Le Petit Paris 75 | San Francsic, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luxfit Sf | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meaningful Beginnings | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oasis Arts Inc | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Osha Thai Bbq | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Academy Sf | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tunnel Records Inc | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vip Grooming Sf | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Excelsior Action Group | San Francisco, CA | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wah Mei School | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Stud | San Francisco, CA | $30,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valencia Corridor Merchants a | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Downtown Community Benefit District | San Francisco, CA | $28,992 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of the Bay Area | San Francisco, CA | $28,737 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Anthony Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chinese Historical Society of America | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chuu Chuu Meat | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Da Chang Yuan | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fatasilima LLC | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sohunan | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Taylor Jay Collection | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Top Therapy Academy | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mid-Market Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The East Cut Community Benefit District | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somarts | San Francisco, CA | $17,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kultivate Labs | San Francisco, CA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clecha | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Music City Artist Development | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Public Press | San Francisco, CA | $9,860 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Holy Stitch Factory Fellowship | San Francisco, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kalw Public Media Inc | San Francisco, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
0 of 36 (0%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- 710 Sf Inc
To support growth of small bus. - Oasis Arts
To breathe new linfe into downtown - United Way Bay Area
To provide resources and assistance - Chuu Chuu Meat
To support small business - Taylor Jay Collection
To support local emerging retailers - Music City Entertainment
Artistic and cultural activities
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 21 | $754,660 | $42,000 |
| 2024 | 15 | $429,329 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $28,864 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Sf New Deal's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 204 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 654 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105.
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