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Mission
This fund provides unhoused people and those experiencing housing insecurity with the resources and services they need to improve their circumstances.
Regions
Causes
Total donors
5
0.00%
Total donations til date
$7320
27.32%
Context
Strategy
Methodology
Portfolio
Weight | Name | Breadth | Depth | Evidence |
---|---|---|---|---|
26.50% | LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES | high | med | med |
24.50% | EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO | med | med | med |
24.50% | SHELTER INC | med | med | med |
24.50% | SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES | high | med | med |
Impact
Financial Assistance
17.53
4.76%
Supportive Services
1.07
5.35%
Education and Employment
0.06
4.55%
Permanent Housing
0.49
5.92%
Homeless Shelter
0.11
4.69%
Transitional Housing
0.25
6%
Updates
How the End of Roe v. Wade Has Affected Abortion Clinics in the California
Ashley Derrig
November 2023
November 8 Update: San Francisco Bay Area Housing and Shelter Fund
November 1, 2023
Itβs time to get smart about saving the world
December 1, 2023
Nonprofit Landscape Report 2023: Employment Trends and Gender Dynamics in the Nonprofit Industry
December 1, 2023
Q1 Week 2: Holiday Stress on Domestic Violence Victims and Families, and Sheltering Unhoused Women
January 1, 2024
Q1 Week 2: Unsheltered Homelessness, the Development Doom Loop, and Urban Alchemy
January 1, 2024
Q1 Week 3: The Ineffectiveness of Homeless Sweeps and the Need for More Tenant Lawyers
January 1, 2024
Q1 Week 5: New Counts of Homelessness and More YIMBY vs NIMBY
February 1, 2024
Q1 Week 7: Affordable Housing Developments Throughout California
February 1, 2024
Q1 Week 12: Nationwide Frustrations about Housing Prices
March 1, 2024
Frequently Asked Questions
We first look at all nonprofit organizations operating in the given region that have at least one program targeting the fund's cause. Our team assesses each organizationβs level of data transparency and focuses on ones that meet a minimum threshold of data disclosure. We then analyze program operations and outcomes data from a combination of public sources like IRS filings and directly from the nonprofits to determine the breadth, depth, and evidence of each organization's impact. Based on the strategy we've designed for the fund, we rank all the nonprofits we've analyzed and choose the top 4.
Our funds are regionally focused. We believe that local nonprofits are more in touch with the challenges that face each individual community and benefit more from our support than larger, brand-name organizations would.
When we analyze nonprofits, we focus on evaluating the relative breadth, depth, and evidence of their impact. We assign scores on a scale of 1-5 for each category. We then translate a nonprofit's numerical score in each category to High/Med/Low based on how it compares relative to all other nonprofits for that cause, region, and output category. For more details, please refer to our fund strategy and methodology.
For each of our managed funds, we have a Fund Manager who works with our team of researchers and writers to design, report on, and improve the fund. They steer the fund's initial focus and strategy, determine the types of research and reports to create, and assess the performance of the fund to optimize it over time.
The Fund Manager sends monthly reports to subscribers of the fund. These reports provide detailed information on how donations are being utilized, the estimated impact being achieved, and the stories of the individuals or communities benefiting from the support. Our writers also create weekly updates with relevant news about the cause, updates from the nonprofits in the fund, and more.
We currently update fund strategies on a quarterly basis. This includes assessing the performance of the fund, refreshing our evaluations of nonprofits, and introducing any new or relevant research into our analysis of social causes and outputs. This process can result in one or more of the nonprofits in a managed fund changing based on latest data and analysis.
We also regularly monitor the nonprofits in a fund to make ad-hoc changes, if necessary. For example, If a nonprofit is no longer in good standing, we will replace them with the next highest scoring organization in our database.
100% of the money you donate will go directly to the nonprofits in this fund. The only fee we have is a standard 3% credit card processing fee imposed by our payments provider to cover the cost of the transaction. We do give you the option to add a tip to your donations, which goes to Impact Lab and helps us cover costs to maintain our platform, conduct research and analysis, and publish high-quality content.