Citywide Nonprofit Monitoring and Capacity Building Program

Each year, San Francisco contracts with hundreds of nonprofit organizations to provide critical services. As of December 2023, these contracts represent about $1.7 billion annually.

Nonprofits must have regular oversight (called monitoring) while they are contracting with the City. Monitoring can be completed during a site visit to the agency or virtually in our hybrid working environment. 

Through our program, nonprofits receive the benefit of:

• Joint monitoring (meaning, if a nonprofit receives funds from multiple departments, monitoring will be combined into one monitoring event).
• Training, tools, and support to build their internal capacity.

Eligibility

Our program conducts a risk assessment each year to determine which contracts are part of the “monitoring pool.”

The monitoring pool includes nonprofits that:

• Receive $1 million or more from a single department (even if they get funding from more than one department).
• Receive at least $200,000 in total from two or more departments (if they get at least $50,000 from each funding department).

The monitoring pool does NOT include nonprofits that:

• Receive funding from only one department and receive less than $1 million.
• Receive funding from multiple departments that total $200,000 to $999,999.