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Bill Graham Supporting Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$249kHealth$225kFood & Nutrition$53kReligion$20kEducation$9k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $163,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $435,246 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $271,446 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $151k
$151,300
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$151,300
WOODSTOCK MUSEUM$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $10k → 22%PETELUMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $200k → 10%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $160k → 10%CHABAD OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%PETELUMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $152k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $4k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (PEF): $3k → 8%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $151k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $4k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (PEF): $3k → 8%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $151k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (PEF): $3k → 8%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $147k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $147k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $96k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $11k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC: $4k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC: $3k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $4k → 10%WOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 16%BERKELEY OLD TIME MUSIC CONVENTION: $6k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $4k → 10%FREIGHT AND SALVAGE COFFEEHOUSE: $4k → 10%INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS: $3k → 10%EAST BAY BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK: $10k → 10%BLUE BEAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $9k → 10%BLUE BEAR SCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC: $6k → 10%AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE COMPLEX: $4k → 10%AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE COMPLEX: $4k → 10%AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE COMPLEX: $4k → 10%AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS AND CULTURE COMPLEX: $4k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE: $9k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +442% · 99% of their budget
  • IF
    Intersection for the Arts
    7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +48%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SR
    SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +16%
  • DE
    DAVID E SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -99%
  • CO
    CHABAD OF S FRANCISCO INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
InterMusic Sf

InterMusic SF is dedicated to sustaining and nourishing the Bay Area creative environment by offering dynamic programming and vital resources for music creators and audience members.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
4
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Midsummer Mozart Festival

The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…

Arts & Culture
6
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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8
Stern Grove Festival Association

The mission of SGFA is to make live musical experiences accessible to all. The organization does this by providing ten admission free performances in Sigmund Stern Grove - a facility and park that was donated to the City of San Francisco…

Arts & Culture
9
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
10
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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11
The James Beard Foundation Inc

The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…

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12
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redwood Empire Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is David E Smith Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,004,800 · PhilanthropyBILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $112,500 · Arts & CultureWOODSTOCK MUSEU…Intersection for the Arts: $59,500 · Arts & CultureIntersection fo…BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY SOCIET…BLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE BEAR SCHOO…WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $200,000 · HealthSWEET RELIEF M…SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $22,500 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE COMPLEX: $16,000 · OtherCHABAD OF S FRANCISCO INC: $10,000 · OtherEAST BAY BIBLE CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC: $9,000 · OtherPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16,840 · EducationREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$1,029,800Arts & Culture$216,000Health$200,000Other$87,500Education$16,840Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBILL GRAHAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,004,800 over 7y, 99% of budgetSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetWOODSTOCK MUSEUM: $112,500 over 9y, 53% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $59,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID E SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16,840 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE COMPLEX: $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bill Graham Supporting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill Graham Supporting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bill Graham Supporting Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bill Graham Supporting Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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