San Francisco Night Ministry (Night Ministry)
To increase access to spiritual care and community at night—on the streets, in public spaces, and on the phones—by offering nonjudgmental, multifaith presence, crisis listening, and formation for emerging spiritual care leaders.
About San Francisco Night Ministry (Night Ministry)
San Francisco Night Ministry (also known simply as Night Ministry) is a donor-facing 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has provided nightly community chaplaincy, street-based presence, and a volunteer-staffed phone Care Line since 1964. The organization focuses on spiritual and emotional accompaniment, crisis intervention, and community-building for people who are awake, isolated, in crisis, or underserved during nighttime hours.
SF Night Ministry combines direct frontline services (Night Walks and a nightly Care Line) with accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) programs and other community gatherings, training new spiritual-care practitioners while sustaining nightly outreach across San Francisco. The organization continues to operate nightly and to adapt program delivery (including online and Spanish-language CPE offerings) to meet evolving community needs over the last several years.
Notable achievements
Six decades of continuous nightly service
Founded in 1964, the organization has operated nightly outreach and chaplaincy for 60+ years, maintaining a consistent presence in San Francisco night-life settings and public spaces.
Accredited Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) center
San Francisco Night Ministry is fully accredited by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and runs CPE units (including online and Spanish-language options), training chaplains, seminarians, and helping professionals in street- and phone-based spiritual care.
Sustained crisis and phone-based outreach
The Night Ministry operates a nightly Care Line and Night Walks year-round, delivering tens of thousands of supportive conversations annually and serving thousands of people across a range of crises and needs.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $95K
- Annual revenue
- $421K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 94-3122524
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Website
- sfnightministry.org
- On Mahalo since
- April 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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