All funds from the initial capitalization of the San Francisco/Alameda County Grant Program have been successfully disbursed. Please check back for information about subsequent rounds of funding.

If you are interested in capitalizing a new round of funding, please contact our Director of Resource Development, Sherry Simmons, by email or by phone at 415.392.8215 x.307.

This program provided technical assistance, planning and capital grants to San Francisco and Alameda County-based nonprofits seeking to establish new permanently affordable nonprofit office space through capital expansion projects or the acquisition/long-term leasing of real estate.

The Fund provided a portion of the equity needed. Applicants were expected to leverage grants with other resources. In evaluating applications, preference was given to projects providing co-location opportunities to other nonprofits.

Planning and Capital Projects

Planning Grants furnished funds for costs that grantee organizations may have incurred before buying, renovating, or building a property such as feasibility studies, appraisals, and environmental testing.

Capital Grants were designed to cover either project-related costs for nonprofits buying or leasing space long-term, renovations of owned space, or new construction.

The funding for the San Francisco/Alameda Grant Program awarded 26 capital grants totaling over $4.1 million. These funds helped to create over 550,000 square feet of permanent space for nonprofit organizations.

Our grants leveraged over $261 million in additional public and private financing. Eighteen of the organizations funded now serve as anchor tenants in new nonprofit centers house an average of five nonprofits.

In addition to the capital grants made to date, NCCLF has provided seven organizations with planning grants and provided technical assistance services to over 400 nonprofit organizations considering community facility projects.

More Information

For more information about the NSCF, please contact
Joshua Simon, Director, Consulting and Grant Programs.