· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $568k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+11 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $600,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIERS | $600,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $600,000 |
| BROTHERS & SISTERS IN ARMS | $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 |
| CHILDREN HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $200,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS | $200,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL GLASS ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Friese Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 61%.
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 +44% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NVNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +450% · 50% of their budget
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +184%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UMUSC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS VETERANS PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $100k
- PTPRIVDENCE TARZANA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k
- IRINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE - UKRAINIAN CRISISone grant, 2022 · $80k
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.
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…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
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…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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,…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
How this is measured
93 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. 93 of the 147 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 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LONE SOLDIER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds VETS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Friese Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friese Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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