· Private foundation
Glasser Family Fund
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SF OPERA ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC (ARCS) | $1,000 |
| CAL PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER (CPMC) FOUNDATION - SUTTER HEALTH | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those 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.
45 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TETHE EXPLORATORIUM5× · 2018–2023 · $46k · revenue +24%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +52%
- 4S42ND STREET MOON5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MSMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $869k
- FOFRIENDS OF OLGA STORE BUILDINGone grant, 2020 · $200k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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 San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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,…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 86 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 Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds 42ND STREET MOON ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospital De La Familia Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC NO CA CHAP ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Sos Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Seattle Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Orcas Bay Foundation
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 Glasser Family Fund 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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.