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Top Grant-funded companies in San Francisco

Companies whose latest disclosed funding is grant or non-dilutive support. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

Built from a search like: “Top Grant-funded companies in San Francisco”

Ranked by current headcount across Grant-funded companies headquartered in San Francisco. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    University of California, San Francisco· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 21.5k employees
  2. 2
    San Francisco Unified School District· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 6.1k employees
  3. 3
    adplist.org· San Francisco, California, United States
    • non equity assistance
    • 2.5k employees
    • Founded 2021
  4. 4
    XYZ· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 1.8k employees
    • Founded 2001
  5. 5
    IN-HOME SUPPORTIVE SERVICES CONSORTIUM· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 1.5k employees
    • Founded 1985
  6. 6
    Multiple· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 1.3k employees
    • Founded 2022
  7. 7
    WestEd· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 1.2k employees
    • Founded 1966
  8. 8
    Wikimedia Foundation· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 1.1k employees
    • Founded 2003
  9. 9
    The Linux Foundation· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 953 employees
    • Founded 2007
  10. 10
    CodePath· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 848 employees
    • Founded 2017
  11. 11
    DCYF· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 740 employees
    • Founded 1991
  12. 12
    San Francisco Chronicle· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 673 employees
  13. 13
    KQED· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 592 employees
    • Founded 1954
  14. 14
    Urban Alchemy· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 587 employees
    • Founded 2018
  15. 15
    Trust for Public Land· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 584 employees
    • Founded 1972
  16. 16
    Gladstone Institutes· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 582 employees
    • Founded 1979
  17. 17
    San Francisco Fire Department· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 562 employees
  18. 18
    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 539 employees
    • Founded 2015
  19. 19
    San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 470 employees
  20. 20
    Bay Area Air District· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 459 employees
    • Founded 1955
  21. 21
    Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 425 employees
  22. 22
    Technovation· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 405 employees
    • Founded 2006
  23. 23
    TNDC· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 380 employees
    • Founded 1981
  24. 24
    San Francisco SPCA· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 351 employees
  25. 25
    San Francisco Conservatory of Music· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 344 employees
    • Founded 1917

Find engineers at Grant-funded companies in San Francisco

Grant-funded companies in San Francisco are some of the fastest-moving employers in the market. The list above ranks the largest Grant-funded-stage companies headquartered in San Francisco by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 361 matching companies in our index, the density of senior engineers, designers, and founders is unusually high.

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Last refreshed: Thu, 07 May 2026 08:49:51 GMT

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