California · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 106
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 76
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $54M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Friese Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $687k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 105 | $7.6M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $5.3M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $5.7M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $5.0M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $4.0M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $3.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Salvation Army | $3,500,000 | 6 | n/a |
| National Veterans Foundation Inc | $1,600,000 | 6 | 50% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $1,555,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $1,472,064 | 6 | 0% |
| United Service Organizations Inc | $1,200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Glass Association | $1,069,936 | 6 | 3% |
| New Life in His Presence | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rancho San Antonio Boys Home Inc | $775,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $700,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation | $650,000 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Friese Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Friese Foundation
- How much does Friese Foundation give?
- Friese Foundation reported 106 grants totaling $7,661,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 76 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Friese Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Animals (14%), Health (8%).
- Who are Friese Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Salvation Army ($3.5M), National Veterans Foundation Inc ($1.6M), Los Angeles Regional Food Bank ($1.6M).
- Does Friese Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friese 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 Friese Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Friese Foundation based?
- Friese Foundation is based in CA.
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