· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF SAN FRANCISCO | $3,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $2,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $2,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $2,000 |
| SCHOOLS OF SACRED HEART | $1,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION | $1,000 |
| CPMC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST IGNATIAS CHURCH | $1,000 |
| PIERCE'S PLEDGE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +32%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART3× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +37%
- GRGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- MEMICHAEL EHRLICH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- COChildren of Sheltersone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +19%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -35%
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.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 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 Children of Shelters ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds PIERCES PLEDGE ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Eliot and Cynthia Fried Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eliot and Cynthia Fried Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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