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Fred Craves Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES | $400,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT ONCY BIOETHICS | $100,000 |
| MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ROOT DIVISION | $30,000 |
| HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $22,500 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RESCAPE | $10,000 |
| BAY AREA RIDGE TRAIL COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| KOPERNIK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $650k · revenue +35%- MGMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +243%
- RDRoot Division7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $145k
- OSOKLAND SUSTAINABLE URBAN NEIGHBORHOODone grant, 2021 · $141k
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Root Division ↗
- Who funds HUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Ridge Trail Council ↗
- Who funds GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
- Who funds Center for Humane Technology ↗
- Who funds THE CRUCIBLE ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Koret Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · East Bay Community Foundation · The Rock Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Fred Craves Family Foundation 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.
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.
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