San Francisco Safehouse

Analysis

San Francisco Safehouse is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, San Francisco Safehouse reported income of $517k and spending of $2.4m, spending 459% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to June 2023, income fell from $816k to $517k (-37%), an average of -8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 373%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, San Francisco Safehouse sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healthy Archuleta Inc ($516k), Capital Area Initiatives Foundation ($517k) and Cheyenne County Child Development Center ($516k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $7,000. At year end it held assets of $5.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $5.2m.