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Soda tax programs

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About our programs

Soda tax funded programs were selected based on priorities set by the Sugary Drinks Distributor Tax Advisory Committee. These priorities are intended to support community capacity and self determination while also decreasing chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. Browse through the categories below to see the innovative programs that integrate healthy habits with workforce development and community building. Funded organizations did even more lifesaving work during COVID-19, pivoting to provide healthy, free food and creating virtual classes and community spaces.San Francisco Soda Tax homepage

Soda tax programs

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Nutrition security

Nutrition security includes multiple types of programs: food security (providing free or subsidized healthy food); food access (increasing availability of healthy food); healthy retail (supporting existing corner stores to stock fresh produce); urban agriculture (growing food); and nutrition education.

About nutrition security

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Physical activity

Physical activity includes a range of free programs to get people moving in ways that resonate culturally and support the spectrum of abilities.

About physical activity

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Water access

Water access focuses on providing a free and healthy alternative to sugar loaded drinks in public venues and our public schools as well as educating about the importance of tap water for our health.

About water access

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Oral health

Oral health programs offer dental sealants on our youngest school children’s teeth as well as case management and education and outreach to emphasize the importance of oral health.

About oral health

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Workforce development

Workforce development is often a second/third bottom line for some SDDT funded healthy eating/active living (HEAL) organizations; that is, they utilize the SDDT funds to hire and train community residents to implement their SDDT-funded HEAL work.

About workforce development

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Community building

Community building programs offer healthy eating/active living opportunities but do so in a context that is primarily designed to offer safe spaces for community and places to build a sense of community.

About community building

Soda tax funded city agencies

San Francisco Department of Public Health

  • School-based sealant application in public elementary schools
  • Sugary Drinks Distributor Tax Advisory Committee (SDDTAC) infrastructure and backbone support
  • Grants to community based organizations are administered through SF Department of Public Health including: Children's Oral Health Task Forces, Healthy Food Purchasing Supplement, Healthy Communities, and PSE grants.

San Francisco Human Services Agency

Citywide Food Access addresses ongoing food and nutrition gaps by granting funds to CBOs to implement direct programming including purchasing power (grocery voucher) programs, supplemental meal services, community food production (urban agriculture), neighborhood-based grocery access, and the D10 Community Market.

San Francisco Unified School District

  • Student Nutrition Services: classroom-based health, food, nutrition, and water education, student-led action, and hydration station installation.
  • Healthy Schools Grants to Community-Based Organizations

San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development

The Healthy Retail Initiative, led by a community-based organization, works with corner stores and community ambassadors to improve access to healthier food and beverages in local stores, especially in areas where there may be limited options.

Soda tax funded community-based organizations

See below for a list of funded organizations and city agencies for fiscal year 2025-26.

Healthy Food Purchasing Supplement grantees

Healthy Schools grantees

Early Childhood Education and Nutrition grantee

Past soda tax funded entities

Since 2019, $85,645,000 in SDDT funds have been invested in the people and places most targeted by the beverage industry.

Past funded city agencies

  • SF Recreation and Parks Department (2019 – 2024)

Healthy Communities grantees

Multi-year grants through San Francisco Public Health Foundation (SFPHF)

Cohort 2 (2023 – 2025)

  1. All My Uso's (AMU) & Fa'atasi Youth Services
  2. Association of the Ramaytush Ohlone (ARO)
  3. Community Awareness Resource Entity (CARE)
  4. Farming Hope
  5. Florence Fang Community Farm
  6. South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN)

Cohort 1 (2019 – 2023)

  1. Asociacion Mayab (2019) & Instituto Familiar de la Raza (2020-2023)
  2. Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
  3. BMAGIC (2019 – 2022) & 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic (2022-2023)
  4. Bounce Back Generation
  5. Community Grows
  6. Community Well
  7. Farming Hope
  8. San Francisco African American Faith Based Coalition
  9. SisterWeb
  10. South of Market Community Action Network (SOMCAN)
  11. Urban Sprouts

Policy, System, Environmental Change (PSE) grantees

Multi-year grants through SFDPH

  1. 18 Reasons (2020 – 2025)
  2. Central American Resource Center- CARECEN (2020 – 2025)
  3. Marin City Health and Wellness Center Bayview Clinic (2020 – 2023)
  4. Southeast Asian Development Center (funded from 2020 – 2023)
  5. Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (2020 – 2025)

Childrens' Oral Health Task Force grantees

Multi-year grants through SFDPH

  1. Chinatown Task Force on Children’s Oral Health - NICOS Chinese Health Coalition (2019 – 2025)
  2. Mission Children’s Oral Health Task Force - CARECEN SF (2019 – 2025)
  3. District 10 Children’s Oral Health Task Force - Dental Robin Hood (2023 – 2025)
  4. District 10 Children’s Oral Health Task Force - APA Family Support Services (2019 – 2022)

Healthy Schools grantees

Multi-year grant through San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and SFPHF

Cohort 1

  1. Health Initiatives for Youth (2021 – 2023)

Healthy Food Purchasing Supplement grantees

Multi-year grants through SFPHF

  1. Alemany Farmers Market/SF Real Estate Department (2021-2022)
  2. A Better Course at Alemany Farmers Market (2019-2020)

Healthy Retail grantees

Multi-year grants through Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD)

  1. Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (2019 – 2023)

Healthy Communities Support grantees

One-time grants through SFPHF

2024 Event Sponsorship Grants

  1. Bay Area SCORES
  2. Cultura y Arte Nativa de las Americas’ (CANA)
  3. Chinatown YMCA
  4. The Healing Well
  5. Mission Science Workshop
  6. National Coalition of 100 Black Women
  7. RAMS

2024 Capacity Building Grants

  1. Children's Council
  2. Foodwise
  3. Instituto Familiar de la Raza
  4. Project Open Hand
  5. Walk SF

2019 Capacity Building Grants

  1. 18 Reasons
  2. Asociacion Mayab
  3. Marin City Health and Wellness Center Bayview Clinic
  4. Bounce Back and Healthy Generations Project
  5. Children’s Council
  6. Clinic By the Bay
  7. Community Grows
  8. Community Well
  9. Eat SF
  10. Heat of the Kitchen
  11. Instituto Familiar de la Raza
  12. Jamestown Community Center
  13. Leah’s Pantry
  14. Magic Tooth Bus
  15. Meals on Wheels SF
  16. Northridge Cooperative Housing Community Gardens
  17. Project Commotion
  18. Regents of UC Transitions Clinic
  19. Regional Pacific Islander Task Force
  20. Renaissance Parents of Success
  21. Samoan Community Development Center
  22. San Francisco African American Faith Based Coalition
  23. SF Brown Bombers
  24. SisterWeb
  25. St. Francis Living Room
  26. Urban Sprouts
  27. YMCA of SF

COVID Emergency Food grantees (2020)

One-time grants through SFPHF or SFDPH

  1. Farming Hope
  2. Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates
  3. Latino Task Force
  4. SFDPH Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH) partner organizations
  5. SFUSD via SFDPH COVID Emergency Operations Center
  6. San Francisco Housing Authority via SFDPH COVID Emergency Operations Center
  7. San Francisco African American Faith Based Coalition
  8. San Francisco Produce Market

Social Media grantees (2019)

One-time grants through San Francisco Public Health Foundation

  1. 18 Reasons
  2. 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic
  3. Carnaval San Francisco
  4. Gum Moon Residence Hall
  5. Imprint City
  6. Jamestown Community Center
  7. Mission High School
  8. Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco
  9. San Francisco Islamic School
  10. Ultimate Impact

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Department of Public Health
SF Unified School District
Recreation and Park Department
Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Human Services Agency