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Elaine & Richard Fohr Foundation at a glance

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Elaine & Richard Fohr 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$251kEducation$19kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$1kRecreation & Sports$500Human Services$200Public Safety & Disaster$100Animals$75Other$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$1,856
Median grant
1
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,600
CHAMBER MUSIC IN NAPA VALLEY$10,000
BAY AREA MUSIC PROJECT$5,000
DANCERS GROUP$4,000
NAPA HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL BOOSTERS$4,000
EAR-PLAY$3,000
OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$3,000
MISCELLANEOUS$1,856
Individual grant recipient$1,000
KQED INC$1,000
OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$200
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$180
WINHOUSE$100
NAPA VALLEY VINE TRAIL COALITION$100
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUNILDA RIANDA SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATION- THE RIANDA HOUSE: $100 → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$317k · 19 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
18

Total granted

$317k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • CM
    Chamber Music in Napa Valley
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +62%
  • E
    EARPLAY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +21%
  • NV
    NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • RU
    ROOSVELT UNIVERSITY MUSIC CONSERVATORY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • OF
    Old First Concerts
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -37%
  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +49%
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 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
2
California Bach Society Inc

Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…

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3
Noe Valley Chamber Music

Noe Valley Chamber Music (d.b.a. Noe Music) is a non-profit organization founded in 1992. Based in an intimate neighborhood setting in the heart of San Francisco, Noe Music combines world-class live performances with interactive education…

Arts & Culture
4
New Century Chamber Orchestra

New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.

Arts & Culture
5
Pocket Opera Inc

Pocket Opera shares the beauty, artistry, and scope of the operatic repertoire sung in English, through performance, outreach, and education.

Arts & Culture
6
Voices of Silicon Valley

Community Music / Arts Organization

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra

Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…

Arts & Culture
8
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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9
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
10
Ross Mckee Foundation for the Musical Arts
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11
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
12
San Jose Chamber Orchestra

The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is Woodenfish Foundation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 43 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chamber Music in Napa Valley: $70,900 · OtherChamber Music in Napa ValleySTANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: $62,620 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSICNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35,600 · OtherNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONOakland Youth Chorus: $15,000 · OtherOakland Youth Chorus+20 more: $18,054 · Other+20 moreEARPLAY: $40,775 · Arts & CultureEARPLAYDANCERS GROUP: $28,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROUPBay Area Music Project: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBay Area Music ProjectKQED INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC+5 more: $2,480 · Arts & CultureNAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS: $9,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $3,000 · EducationWOODENFISH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,500 · Health+1 more: $120 · HealthOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,044 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNapa Valley Vine Trail Coalition: $600 · EnvironmentWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100 · InternationalGunilda Rianda Senior Center Association Rianda House Senior Activity Center: $100 · Human Services
Other$202,174Arts & Culture$109,255Education$13,000Health$5,620Philanthropy$5,044Environment$600International$100Human Services$100

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 budgetChamber Music in Napa Valley: $70,900 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetEARPLAY: $40,775 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $28,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Music Project: $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetOakland Youth Chorus: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKQED INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS: $9,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,044 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld First Concerts: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNapa Valley Vine Trail Coalition: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE PALACE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGunilda Rianda Senior Center Association Rianda House Senior Activity Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Bond Choral Society DBA St Helena Choral Society: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Chamber Music in Napa Valley ↗
  • Who funds EARPLAY ↗
  • Who funds NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Music Project ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Youth Chorus ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Old First Concerts ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODENFISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds DANCE PALACE ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Gunilda Rianda Senior Center Association Rianda House Senior Activity Center ↗
  • Who funds Craig Bond Choral Society DBA St Helena Choral Society ↗

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.

The William & Flora H…Craig and Kathryn Hal…Community Foundation …Marin Community Found…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Elaine & Richard Fohr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elaine & Richard Fohr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 43 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-PF 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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