• Our North Star

  Learn how SFF is forging a path forward guided by our Equity Agenda and its focus on racial equity and financial inclusion. Identifying Our North Star SFF CEO Fred…

• Programs With Impact

  Find out how our programs help Bay Area residents build power, leadership and inclusion in their own communities. Centering People SFF’s People Pathway is focused on making it easier…

• Our Responsibility to the Region

  Read about how we’ve met challenges throughout the years by expanding our commitment to serving our community. Strong Foundations In the aftermath of World War II, a group of…

• 2021 Grantmaking Data

  San Francisco Foundation is fulfilling our promise to be more transparent, to publish our grants, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable to our values and aspirations. Grantmaking is one…

• A Rapid Response to Community Emergencies

  To respond to movements, you need to be quick. Myra Chow, former SFF senior director, Power Pathway Photo courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank, an SFF COVID-19 Emergency…

• Centering Place

  The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou, poet and longtime San…

• Leadership Programs

  Koshland Program San Pablo Neighborhood Fellows in 2017 Building Community Leadership Based on our founders’ own values, SFF has, since our inception, made it a priority to nurture the…

• The Arts

  I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths…

• Centering Power

  Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. Dolores Huerta, co-founder, United Farm Workers Photo courtesy of Asian…

• A Return on Investment

  Jennifer Luk manages Tin Shing Printing, a shop that her father founded in part with a loan made possible by SFF’s impact investing work. Photo by Sarah Abbe Taylor…

• A Multigenerational Commitment to the Bay Area

  SFF donors Bob, Eleanor and David Friedman, grandchildren of SFF co-founder Daniel E. Koshland Sr. The Koshland-Friedman Family Making the Bay Area more equitable is not a spectator sport.…

• Next-Generation Philanthropy

  I think a lot of people in my generation want to feel that sense of, “I’m part of a movement. I’m part of something significant. It’s bigger than just…