San Francisco area nonprofits

There are 9,415 organizations in the greater San Francisco metro area, including the cities of San Francisco, Berkeley, Livermore, Oakland, Pleasanton, Redwood City, San Mateo, San Rafael, San Ramon, South San Francisco, and Walnut Creek. Combined, these San Francisco metro nonprofits employ 512,230 people, earn more than $174 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $291 billion.

Skip to:

List of San Francisco nonprofits
Employment
Revenues
Categories

Job trends for San Francisco nonprofits

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	3,132
1-10	1,826
11-25	934
26-100	937
101 to 1,000	466
1,000+	46

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in San Francisco is driven by large organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, Stanford University, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP), and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest.
The largest employers tend to be managed care organizations, general hospitals, universities, charter schools, and senior residential care facilities.

Sizes of nonprofits in San Francisco

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	3,516
$250k to $1M	2,874
$1M to $5M	1,867
$5M to $25M	779
$25M to $100M	209
$100M+	93

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP), Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, Stanford University, and Delta Dental of California earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in San Francisco.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 1.0% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in San Francisco with more than $100 million account for 85.8% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be managed care organizations, general hospitals, universities, outpatient clinics, and fraternal societies.

Types of nonprofits in San Francisco

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Foundations	1,780	1,026	$10,330,790,752	$60,661,054,897
Educational institutions	1,186	93,885	$12,205,330,399	$55,339,779,284
Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits	896	23,045	$1,742,740,488	$5,191,441,630
Business and community development organizations	684	6,724	$1,505,300,072	$3,740,563,217
Recreation, sports, and social clubs	587	13,688	$1,474,995,008	$1,805,557,477
Human service organizations	568	43,111	$3,878,096,614	$6,041,025,520
Housing providers and shelters	547	7,181	$1,685,197,723	$4,581,636,900
Unions and employment organizations	401	16,710	$1,638,238,330	$2,421,166,960
Religious organizations	289	3,449	$521,818,311	$2,381,157,362
International-focused organizations	270	2,850	$868,613,509	$1,062,974,330

Showing 10 of 25 categories

Directory of nonprofits in San Francisco

Search within these nonprofits

Minimum

Maximum

Filter results...

1-10 of 9,415

Seva Foundation

Since 1978, Seva Foundation has been a leading innovator in the delivery of vital eye care services to the world's most vulnerable.

Revenue

$40.6m

Assets

$38.2m

Employees

EIN

38-2231279

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural sciences under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people.

Revenue

$18.9m

Assets

$50.9m

Employees

170

EIN

45-3138892

IRS type

501(c)(3)

San Francisco Opera Association

San Francisco Opera is committed to being the most exciting force in the opera world. To present opera performances of the highest international quality available to the widest possible audiences.

Revenue

$85.7m

Assets

$272.3m

Employees

938

EIN

94-0836240

IRS type

501(c)(3)

The Bonnie J Addario A Breath Away From the Cure Foundation (ALCF)

The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation (ALCF) is one of the largest philanthropies (patient-founded, patient-focused, and patient-driven) devoted exclusively to eradicating Lung Cancer through research, early detection, education, and treatment.

Revenue

$4.4m

Assets

$3.5m

Employees

EIN

20-4417327

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Fair Trade USA

Fair trade usa enables sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more equitable global trade model that benefits farmers, workers, consumers, industry, and the earth. We achieve our mission by certifying and promoting fair trade...

Revenue

$19.1m

Assets

$14.4m

Employees

119

EIN

41-1848081

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Foundation is dedicated to improving life outcomes for young people through education. They work to ensure that effective education systems in California and Washington provide opportunities for all students to learn, achieve, and thrive.

Revenue

$40.1m

Assets

$393.7m

Employees

N/A

EIN

20-0882784

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB)

Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) is the largest Guide Dog school in North America. Services are provided to students from the United States and Canada at no cost to them. GDB receives no government funding.

Revenue

$50.7m

Assets

$432.9m

Employees

353

EIN

94-1196195

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH)

PBGH is an influential change agent demanding increased value in the health care system. Through collaborative purchaser action and support for systemic change initiatives, we drive improvement in affordability, quality and service.

Revenue

$10.3m

Assets

$6.8m

Employees

EIN

94-3093623

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Marin Humane

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support. Marin Humane is committed to a world in which animals are treated with compassion and respect and where resources are readily available to those who require support for ...

Revenue

$9.3m

Assets

$17.1m

Employees

124

EIN

94-1156562

IRS type

501(c)(3)

SumOfUs

SumOfUs will organize consumers and citizens to pressure corporations to adopt policies that promote economic justice, the health and welfare of citizens and protection of the environment, in the nations in which these corporations operate.

Revenue

$5.7m

Assets

$2.3m

Employees

EIN

45-2513966

IRS type

501(c)(4)

Want more insights on nonprofits in San Francisco?

There's a whole lot more to Cause IQ than what you see here. Additional filters, personnel information, peer benchmarking, Salesforce integration, vendor lists, etc. Access all the information your company needs in one place, already collected.

Schedule a demo

Over 200 customers use Cause IQ to grow, maintain, and serve their nonprofit clients.

Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990 or 990PF with the IRS. We exclude Form 990EZ and Postcard filers, which are high in number but very small in size. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.

San Francisco area nonprofits

Job trends for San Francisco nonprofits

Sizes of nonprofits in San Francisco

Types of nonprofits in San Francisco

Directory of nonprofits in San Francisco

Seva Foundation

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

San Francisco Opera Association

The Bonnie J Addario A Breath Away From the Cure Foundation (ALCF)

Fair Trade USA

Stuart Foundation

Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB)

Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH)

Marin Humane

SumOfUs

Nonprofits

Product

Customers

About

Email newsletter