Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in San Francisco, California

527
foundations with a San Francisco address
$3.05B
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
91
say they accept unsolicited
$15,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 527 foundations that gave a San Francisco, California address on their tax filing — 494 private foundations and 33 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $3.05 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 91 of them (17%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a San Francisco foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 527 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 66 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in San Francisco, California
Koret Foundation$25,000$40.5M$500–$3MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Elbridge Stuart Foundation$28.9M$28.9M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
California Physicians' Service Foundation$100,000$20.2M$10,000–$1.5MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund$15,000$15.2M$1,000–$2.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund$15,000$14.4M$100–$2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Christensen Fund$76,125$13.2M$942–$350,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Walter and Elise Haas Fund$30,000$11.5M$100–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The William G Irwin Charity Foundation$50,000$10.8M$5,000–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John and Marcia Goldman Foundation$15,000$8.8M$100–$1.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation$50,000$6.6M$1,000–$1.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fred Maytag Family Foundation$45,000$6.2M$750–$3.3MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Pilara Family Foundation$100,000$6.1M$1,023–$1.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Zellerbach Family Foundation$10,000$6M$2,500–$170,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Walter S Johnson Foundation$75,000$5.3M$5,000–$588,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
S H Cowell Foundation$50,000$5.2M$1,250–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Charitable$2.2M$4.4M$188,681–$4.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Room to Breathe Project$50,000$3.9M$5,032–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Kimball Foundation$3.8M$3.8M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bella Vista Foundation$35,000$3.8M$500–$120,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Bernard Osher Foundation$15,000$3.6M$3,500–$119,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund$1.2M$3.5M$1M–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Huneeus Foundation$40,000$3.4M$2,500–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mz Foundation$25,000$3.4M$10,000–$2.1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Irene S Scully Family Foundation$3.2M$3.2M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Spaht Family Foundation$25,000$2.7M$1,000–$1.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.