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Friese 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.

$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
106
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$10MAnimals$4.3MHealth$2.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MReligion$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.7MEducation$1.5MInternational$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $568k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.7M
$20,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHERS & SISTERS IN ARMS$600,000
FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIERS$600,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$600,000
SALVATION ARMY$600,000
NEW LIFE IN HIS PRESENCE$400,000
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$400,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$350,000
RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME$300,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$300,000
NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION$300,000
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION$250,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS$200,000
CHILDREN HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$200,000
LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION$200,000
NATIONAL GLASS ASSOCIATION$150,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP USA: $200k → 11%WEST VIEW HUB: $8k → 11%CAL FARLEY'S BOY'S RANCH: $50k → 20%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%COPLINE - AN OFFICER'S LIFELINE: $5k → 6%CHILDHELP USA: $200k → 11%WEST VIEW HUB: $8k → 11%CAL FARLEY'S BOY'S RANCH: $5k → 20%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $3k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $310k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $25k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $112k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $50k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $25k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $25k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $50k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $25k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $50k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $50k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $50k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $50k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $20k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $10k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $10k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $10k → 14%WELLS BRING HOPE: $5k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $300k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $150k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $125k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $100k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $50k → 14%RANCHO SAN ANTONIO BOYS HOME: $50k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of Friese Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Friese Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 88 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.

88 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
24

Total granted

$28M
$771k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-15%

Still filing today

64%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • NV
    NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +450% · 50% of their budget
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +109%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • PT
    PRIVDENCE TARZANA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • UM
    USC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS VETERANS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • CU
    CARE - UKRAINIAN CRISIS
    one grant, 2022 · $80k

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
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
5
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
6
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
7
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
10
International Guiding Eyes Inc Dba Guide Dogs of America

The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…

Human Services
11
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
12
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is American Amputee Soccer Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Equine Therapy ProgramsCancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%29%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/102
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,876

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.

05the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 147 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
55/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $3,500,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST — $1,700,000 · OtherSHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUSTNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $1,600,000 · OtherNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INCLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $1,555,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKNATIONAL GLASS ASSOCIATION — $1,069,936 · OtherNATIONAL GLASS ASSOCIATIONELEVATE CHURCH — $1,000,000 · OtherNEW LIFE IN HIS PRESENCE — $800,000 · Other+79 more — $8,814,600 · Other+79 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,472,064 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc — $775,000 · Human ServicesRancho San Ant…LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $600,000 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES PO…CHILDHELP INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INCA SENSE OF HOME — $250,000 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOM…MERIT AMERICA — $150,000 · Human Services+10 more — $277,800 · Human Services+10 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $700,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $501,000 · HealthTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $120,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $100,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $85,000 · Health+10 more — $126,000 · HealthBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $600,000 · AnimalsSPIRIT OF ANIMALS — $410,000 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $185,000 · AnimalsSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC — $150,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $150,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for Animals — $120,000 · AnimalsForte Animal Rescue — $75,000 · Animals+10 more — $192,000 · AnimalsPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $500,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $200,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationSIERRA CANYON SCHOOL — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $1,200,000 · Public BenefitFOR THE TROOPS — $153,400 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC — $600,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$20,039,536Human Services$3,924,864Health$2,032,000Animals$1,882,000Education$1,360,000Public Benefit$1,358,400Philanthropy$1,050,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $1,600,000 over 6y, 50% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $1,555,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,472,064 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $1,200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GLASS ASSOCIATION — $1,069,936 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetRancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc — $775,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $700,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetVETS ADVOCACY INC — $600,000 over 6y, 62% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $600,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC — $600,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $501,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT OF ANIMALS — $410,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetCHILDHELP INC — $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING FREE NON-PROFIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $400,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBABY2BABY — $350,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWest Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc — $330,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $300,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $250,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFOR THE TROOPS — $153,400 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC — $150,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERIT AMERICA — $150,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $120,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTRIVE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetWELLS BRING HOPE — $105,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetForte Animal Rescue — $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetJVS SOCAL — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Area Youth for Christ — $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH — $55,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE 4 ANIMALS — $50,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSIERRA CANYON SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetApex Protection Project — $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% 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 NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GLASS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VETS ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds SPIRIT OF ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIVING FREE NON-PROFIT ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds West Valley Boys & Girls Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Army Historical Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds A SENSE OF HOME ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Henry L Guenther Foun…The Green FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…QueensCareThe Annenberg Foundat…The Crail-Johnson Fou…Pasadena Community Fo…Greater Horizons
California Community FoundationCA23× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · QueensCare · The Annenberg Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Greater Horizons

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 Friese 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 147 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines