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CIVIC SPACE FOUNDATION

EIN 88-1045135 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$7,980,381
Expenses 2025
$5,748,478

Program services were 92.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B99
Classification
1000
Street
760 FELL ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Partner and invest in the people, organizations, and projects working to build civic gathering spaces around the country.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Investing in spaces, projects, and people to build joyful civic engagement.

  • The Civic Joy Fund started in 2023 as a program of the Civic Space Foundation, with the goal of revitalizing a post-pandemic San Francisco. What began with a little idea to light up commercial corridors around the city has grown into initiatives to paint hundreds of utility boxes, host weekly trash pick-ups, and support small- and large-scale community events. Large scale events include Downtown First Thursdays and neighborhood Night Markets while smaller initiatives include supporting neighborhood Block Parties, creating gathering spaces through Green Streets.

    Expenses $5,300,231 · Grants $3,174,040

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Emanuel Yekutiel

    ED/President

    Total calculated
    $187,045
    From this org
    $154,236
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,809
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,236
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $23,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,309
    Filer's total
    $187,045

  • Caleb Hilladakis

    Managing Director

    Total calculated
    $174,755
    From this org
    $137,042
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,713
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,042
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $23,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,213
    Filer's total
    $174,755

  • Luke Spray

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $166,613
    From this org
    $145,620
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,993
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,620
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $11,199
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,794
    Filer's total
    $166,613

  • Lala Wu

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Avruch

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Max Patinkin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,980,381
    Expenses
    $5,748,478
    Contributions
    $7,958,990
    Grants paid
    $3,174,040
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,294,519
    Expenses
    $5,578,236
    Contributions
    $8,193,422
    Grants paid
    $4,182,528
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,763,059
    Expenses
    $1,499,897
    Contributions
    $2,754,776
    Grants paid
    $160,071

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Emanuel Yekutiel
Mailing address
760 Fell StreetSan Francisco CA 94117
Website
www.civicspacefoundation.org/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • Into the Streets

    $2,060,000

    2024 First Thursdays & Mini Grants

  • Into The Streets

    $1,276,500

    2025 First Thursdays & Mini Eid St. Fair

  • Noise Pop Industries LLC

    $643,563

    2024 Summer of Music

  • Valencia Corridor Merch Assoc

    $350,000

    2025 Neighborhood Night Markets

  • Broke But Grand LLC

    $289,441

    2024 Paint the City

  • Chris & Greg Events LLC

    $126,340

    2024 Night Markets

  • BEChinatown

    $120,000

    2024 Night Markets

  • Johns Grill

    $115,000

    2025 Third Thursdays

  • BE Chinatown

    $114,594

    2025 Neighborhood Night Market

  • Excelsior Action Group

    $112,973

    2025 Night Market & Block Party

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.