· Private foundation
Beverly M Folger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA CHAPTER | $35,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA CHAPTER | $34,450 |
| CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BAY AREA CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| USET FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $5,000 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Beverly M Folger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +112%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2020–2024 · $196k · revenue +38%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY5× · 2020–2025 · $79k · revenue +4%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1%- FOFRIENDS OF HUDDARD WUNDERLICHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FPFMES PTOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +179%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To provide orchestral music performances, educational services, and arts advocacy programs to the greater silicon valley region.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The mission of berkeley symphony is to celebrate our unique and diverse community through music-creating live performances and educational programs to engage the curiosity, spirit, and intellect of our audiences.
The san francisco ballet endowment foundation was established in 1980 and in 1981 made its first distribution to the san francisco ballet association (the association), a california nonprofit public benefit corporation. (see schedule o)…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDDART & WUNDERLICH PARKS ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Smuin Ballet ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GUILD AT THE WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FMES PTO ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Performances Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Beverly M Folger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beverly M Folger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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