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Five Arts 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.

$352k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$147k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Five Arts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$285k18%
FY202419$225k37%
FY202314$276k36%
FY202212$183k17%
FY202115$227k53%
FY202012$132k42%
FY201911$172k27%
FY20189$182k33%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.7MPhilanthropy$617kEducation$85kEnvironment$35kRecreation & Sports$7kCivil Rights$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco Opera Association$870,00090%
San Francisco Conservatory of Music$211,50060%
Community Music Center$80,00040%
San Francisco Performances Inc$58,50091%
William Jewell College$50,00010%
Merola Opera Program$40,64590%
Baykeeper$30,00021%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$25,15020%
West Edge Opera$21,31080%
Opera Parallle$8,70020%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Five Arts Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco Opera Association$870,00090%
San Francisco Conservatory of Music$211,50060%
Community Music Center$80,00040%
San Francisco Performances Inc$58,50091%
William Jewell College$50,00010%
Merola Opera Program$40,64590%
Baykeeper$30,00021%
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc$25,15020%
West Edge Opera$21,31080%
Opera Parallle$8,70020%
San Francisco Symphony$7,50030%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$7,50030%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$6,50020%
Opera San Jose Incorporated$6,45030%
San Francisco Ballet Association$5,00020%
Sarah Lawrence College$5,00020%
Pacific Singers & Actors Workshop$4,30042%
Opera America Inc$3,75030%
Ojai Valley School$2,50020%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$1,50030%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$1,00010%
The Santa Fe Opera$1,00010%
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale$1,00010%
Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation$1,00010%
Pocket Opera Inc$93520%
Grabhorn Institute$75020%
Kqed Inc$50010%
Sierra Club$40010%
Wings for Learning$30010%
Greater Farallones Association$25010%
The Frick Collection$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($330k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Five Arts Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $870,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Conservatory of Music: $211,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Music Center: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSan Francisco Performances Inc: $58,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerola Opera Program: $40,645 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBaykeeper: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $25,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWest Edge Opera: $21,310 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Parallle: $8,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Francisco Symphony: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpera San Jose Incorporated: $6,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Ballet Association: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Lawrence College: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Singers & Actors Workshop: $4,300 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetOpera America Inc: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Valley School: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Fe Opera: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetByrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPocket Opera Inc: $935 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrabhorn Institute: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWings for Learning: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Farallones Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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 San Francisco Fou…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…The William & Flora H…Marin Community Found…The Bernard Osher Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Carol Franc Buck Foun…Ululani FoundationBob a Ross Foundation…The Sam Mazza Foundat…Koret FoundationHorizons Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA23.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Carol Franc Buck Foundation · Ululani Foundation · Bob a Ross Foundation Inc · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Koret Foundation · Horizons 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.

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About Five Arts Foundation

How much does Five Arts Foundation give?
Five Arts Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $352,348 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Five Arts Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Philanthropy (26%), Education (4%).
Who are Five Arts Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Opera Association ($870k), San Francisco Conservatory of Music ($212k), Community Music Center ($80k).
Does Five Arts Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Five Arts Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Five Arts Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where is Five Arts Foundation based?
Five Arts Foundation is based in CA.

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 48 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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