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Eliot and Cynthia Fried Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$62kArts & Culture$56kReligion$44kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$2kCrime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCO$3,500
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$2,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$2,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA$2,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$2,000
SCHOOLS OF SACRED HEART$1,000
SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION$1,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$1,000
ST IGNATIAS CHURCH$1,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET FOUNDATION$1,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
CPMC FOUNDATION$1,000
PIERCE'S PLEDGE$500
Individual grant recipient$400
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%ST HELENA FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $14k → 10%MICHAEL EHRLICH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $2k → 15%PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%ST HELENA FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $9k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ST HELENA FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 9%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $6k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $4k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $1k → 15%PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $4k → 10%PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $4k → 10%MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS: $1k → 9%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $4k → 10%MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS: $1k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $2k → 10%MUSIC IN THE VINEYARDS: $1k → 9%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1k → 10%ST IGNATIAS CHURCH: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $2k → 10%CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2k → 10%CPMC FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%CHILDREN OF SHELTERS: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$174k · 20 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$174k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CP
    CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +32%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    3× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +37%
  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • ME
    MICHAEL EHRLICH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -35%
  • CO
    Children of Shelters
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
6
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
7
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
9
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
10
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
California Institute of Contemporary Art

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is Glaucoma Research 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $37,750 · OtherPETER MICHAEL MEDICAL FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE EMANU-EL — $29,800 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO TEMPLE EMANU-ELCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCO — $13,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCOMICHAEL EHRLICH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherMICHAEL EHRLICH FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $7,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUMSSAN FRANCISCO BALLET FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO BALLET FOUNDATIONST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL — $6,750 · OtherST HELENA FIRE DEPARTMENT — $4,300 · Other+8 more — $12,250 · Other+8 moreSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $11,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $11,250 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $9,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASS…Music in the Vineyards Inc — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMusic in the Vineyards …CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,665 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $1,350 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $12,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA…GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthGLAUCOMA R…+1 more — $250 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $250 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $1,500 · Recreation & SportsPIERCES PLEDGE — $500 · Public BenefitENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $450 · Youth Development
Other$127,850Arts & Culture$39,765Health$18,250Education$5,250Recreation & Sports$1,500Public Benefit$500Youth Development$450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $11,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMusic in the Vineyards Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,665 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Shelters — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIERCES PLEDGE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Music in the Vineyards Inc
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
  • Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds Children of Shelters
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION
  • Who funds PIERCES PLEDGE
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

McKesson Foundation IncTX13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McKesson Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Eliot and Cynthia Fried Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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