About Yerba Buena Community Benefit District
A nonprofit community benefit district that brings people together to improve the quality of life in the downtown Yerba Buena neighborhood by providing clean, safe, welcoming services, supporting arts and culture, small businesses, public space improvements and neighborhood activation.
Focus Areas
public artneighborhood events and activationsmall business supportpublic space improvementsclean and safe servicesmarketing and promotionseconomic development and convention support
Who They Fund
Yerba Buena / downtown San Francisco residents and workersfamilies and general visitorsAsian American & Pacific Islander communities (including Filipino community)Black community (MLK Day, Juneteenth audiences)
About Yerba Buena Community Benefit District
Yerba Buena Community Benefit District centers its giving on projects that make downtown San Francisco’s Yerba Buena neighborhood safer, more welcoming, and more active. A standout recent grant went to the Filipino-american Development Foundation for the Parol Lantern Festival and for design, fabrication, purchase, and installation of parol lighting at the Mission Street tunnel entrance, combining cultural programming with a public-space improvement. That mix of arts, neighborhood activation, and visible street-level improvements appears throughout its recent awards. The district’s grants also show sustained support for recurring public programming and neighborhood institutions. Yerba Buena Arts & Events received funding for the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival and for Halloween Hoopla, including live outdoor performances and activations from May to October. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts was funded for public art commissions in outdoor locations on the YBCA premises or surrounding gardens, showing a preference for art that is installed in place and experienced by the public. The district also backs cultural celebrations, free-access programming, and business support activities that serve residents, workers, visitors, and local organizations in the neighborhood.
What Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Funds
Public art is one of the clearest themes in the grant record. Yerba Buena Community Benefit District gave $20,000 to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for public art commissions for an outdoor location on the YBCA premises or surrounding gardens, and later awarded $10,000 for a similar outdoor public art commission tied to the building and surrounding gardens. Cultural festivals and heritage events are another recurring lane. The district gave $25,000 to Yerba Buena Arts & Events Dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival for Halloween Hoopla and Yerba Buena Magic, a series of live outdoor performances and activations featuring more than 30 family-friendly, culturally diverse performances. It also awarded $10,000 to Kultivate Labs for the Philippine Independence Crawl and Mural. Free-access arts programming appears as well. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art received $10,000 for First Thursdays at the museum, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum received $7,500 for Free First Fridays.
How Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$165K
Total Assets
$8.2M
Total Revenue
$5.1M
Total Expenses
$4.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $18K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$18K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
SCOTT ROWITZ
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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