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Urban Alchemy

Between 2020 and 2027, the City and County of San Francisco paid $104.7M to Urban Alchemy, mostly through HOM Homelessness Services, with 12 contracts on file. Source: SF Controller vendor payments (open data), data as of 13 July 2026.

NonprofitNonprofitCommunity improvement and capacity building12 active contracts

Urban Alchemy is an IRS-recognized tax-exempt organization in San Francisco, CA, classified under community improvement and capacity building.

Community improvement and capacity building · San Francisco, CA · EIN 825408579

Registry: IRS exempt-organization registry (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

$104.7M
paid by San Francisco, 2020–2027
Departments
7
Categories
5
Payments
679
Period
2020–2027

What the City pays them for

The City’s own accounting categories, FY2018 on.

Community Based Org Srvcs$80.2MOther Professional Services$11.4MOther Current Expenses - Bdgt$8.6MOther Current Expenses$4.4MSecurity$17,944

In FY2025

$18.4M, in the last year with closed books.

HOM Homelessness ServicesCommunity Based Org Srvcs$13.5MDEM Emergency ManagementOther Professional Services$2.3MHSA Human Services AgencyCommunity Based Org Srvcs$1.9MLIB Public LibraryCommunity Based Org Srvcs$456,764ECN Economic & Wrkfrce DvlpmntCommunity Based Org Srvcs$195,000

Paid by year

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'21
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'27·

Hatched: FY2026, FY2027 are not closed yet — the bar shows payments recorded so far, not a full year.

Tallest bar — FY2025: $18.4M. Bars are scaled to this payee’s own peak year.

Who pays them

7 departments, 68.1% of it from HOM Homelessness Services.

HOM Homelessness Services382 vouchers$71.3MHSA Human Services Agency99 vouchers$17.3MDEM Emergency Management41 vouchers$7.0MDPW Public Works51 vouchers$4.6MLIB Public Library63 vouchers$3.0M

Active contracts (12)

+ 6 more contracts

Source: SF Controller — Vendor Payments (Vouchers) & Supplier Contracts, name-normalized. Departments and categories are the City's own coding; sorting them into purchases and non-purchases (debt service, benefit plans, tax withholding, payments to other governments, balance-sheet lines) is ours. The file records a fiscal year, never a payment date.

See also

Other payees of its main paying department, and where its payments are classified.

Tenderloin Housing Clinic IncSame main paying department, HOM Homelessness Services$641.9MEpiscopal Community Svcs of S F IncSame main paying department, HOM Homelessness Services$610.6MChicago Title CompanySame main paying department, HOM Homelessness Services$490.5MSpending category: Community Based Org SrvcsIts main category of payments, and who else the City pays in itHOM Homelessness Services: every active contractWhat the department buys, and from whomWho gets paid by San FranciscoEvery vendor payment, by category and department