A significant piece of the City’s mandate is being fulfilled by a kaleidoscope of independent organizations
Another day, another nonprofit scandal. This time, the district attorney’s office is investigating SF SAFE, a crime-prevention nonprofit that received more than $5 million from the San Francisco Police Department from July 2018 through March 2023.
Two months ago, the city controller issued a report detailing the financial and operational health of 197 nonprofits that “either receive City funding above a certain threshold, contract with multiple departments or were selected for fiscal monitoring based on a risk assessment.” These revelations came months after a separate report from the Office of the Controller noted, “It is difficult to measure the overall impact of the programs and services provided because performance measurement and program monitoring vary among city departments and most data is not shared.”
Nonprofit employment has outpaced private-sector job growth by 24 percent since the financial crisis, making it the second-largest provider of jobs in the country. San Francisco, where one in six employed residents works for a nonprofit organization, offers a case in point. Nonprofit employment is hardly a path to material wealth. Still, it comes with undeniable psychic and social benefits rooted in the assumed altruism of nonprofit status — to say nothing of the virtuous work most organizations do.
But unlike the open-ended and constantly evolving task of maintaining a strong national defense in a dangerous world, the goal with an issue like homelessness is the problem’s eradication. Ultimate success would therefore eliminate the entire superstructure’s raison d’etre. The incentives are horribly misaligned.
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