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Glasser Family Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$805
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2026
3
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2026
$805
Largest grant, FY2026
$805
Organizations funded a year
3 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2026
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Glasser Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving1$8050%
FY20243$17k67%
FY202331$1.0M16%
FY202233$214k18%
FY202129$187k41%
FY202027$357k19%
FY201925$129k40%
FY201831$107k55%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$926kArts & Culture$522kHealth$267kEducation$160kScience & Tech$74kEnvironment$47kYouth Development$40kInternational$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 53 grantees
All grantees of Glasser Family Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival$60,00053%
San Francisco Opera Association$55,00030%
The Exploratorium$46,00050%
American Conservatory Theatre Foundation$45,00070%
Girls Incorporated of Alameda County$39,00070%
The Foundation of the City College of San Francisco$36,50050%
Family Foundation Charitable Trust$30,50057%
42nd Street Moon$26,00051%
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation$22,50040%
Hospital De La Familia Foundation$22,50031%
University of Chicago$15,00010%
Village Academies Network Inc$14,00040%
California Shakespeare Theater$12,00030%
Russian Hill Neighbors$12,0002n/a
Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation$11,00030%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$10,00010%
Orcas Center$9,50061%
Ocean Conservancy$9,00030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$7,10060%
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc No Ca Chap$6,50030%
Opal Community Land Trust$6,50060%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$6,50030%
Wild Salmon Center$6,50030%
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$6,00060%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California$6,0002n/a
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$5,50030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,50020%
Orcas Community Resource Center$5,50050%
Orcas Island Rowing Association$5,0001n/a
Arctic Ice Project$5,00010%
Holy Assumption Monastery$5,0001n/a
Alive and Free$5,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$5,00010%
Point Reyes Bird Observatory$4,00040%
Filmmakers Collaborative$4,00012%
Ronald C Wornick Jewish Day School$3,04020%
The San Juan Preservation Trust$3,00030%
10000 Degrees$3,00030%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc$2,50040%
Kqed Inc$2,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,50010%
University of Washington Foundation$1,25020%
Presidio Graduate School$1,00010%
Naturebridge$1,00010%
Glaucoma Research Foundation$1,00010%
California Academy of Sciences$1,00010%
Trout Unlimited Inc$1,00010%
St Francis Sailing Foundation$1,00010%
Orcas Open Arts$1,00020%
Envision Education Inc$1,00010%
Palm Springs International Jazz Festival$1,00011%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$1,00010%
San Francisco Beautiful$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Glasser Family Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrcas Island Chamber Music Festival: $60,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Exploratorium: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Conservatory Theatre Foundation: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Alameda County: $39,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation of the City College of San Francisco: $36,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Foundation Charitable Trust: $30,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budget42nd Street Moon: $26,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSan Francisco General Hospital Foundation: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHospital De La Familia Foundation: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Academies Network Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Shakespeare Theater: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChabot Space & Science Center Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrcas Center: $9,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $7,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc No Ca Chap: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOpal Community Land Trust: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWild Salmon Center: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrcas Community Resource Center: $5,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetArctic Ice Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlive and Free: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoint Reyes Bird Observatory: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFilmmakers Collaborative: $4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRonald C Wornick Jewish Day School: $3,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Juan Preservation Trust: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget10000 Degrees: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAls Therapy Development Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresidio Graduate School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaturebridge: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlaucoma Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Sailing Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOrcas Open Arts: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEnvision Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Springs International Jazz Festival: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 49.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Glasser Family Fund

How much does Glasser Family Fund give?
Glasser Family Fund reported 1 grants totaling $805 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Glasser Family Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Arts & Culture (24%), Health (12%).
Who are Glasser Family Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival ($60k), San Francisco Opera Association ($55k), The Exploratorium ($46k).
Does Glasser Family Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Glasser Family Fund 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 Glasser Family Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is Glasser Family Fund based?
Glasser Family Fund is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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