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Michael Fredrich Charitable 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
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 FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$41kEnvironment$18kPhilanthropy$9kYouth Development$7kFood & Nutrition$6kEducation$5kPublic Benefit$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$374k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UW-EC FOUNDATION SCHOLFIELD HALL 21$8,500
NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB$2,500
TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY$2,000
CITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTH$1,500
LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CE$1,250
FRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY$1,000
ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE$500
OPEN HEART KITCHEN$500
TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST$500
MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$250
FOUNDATION AIDING THE ELDERLY$250
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARC$250
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$250
BAY AREA RIDGE TRAIL COUNCIL$100
MEALS ON WHEELS$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY: $1k → 10%TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $500 → 11%SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARC: $250 → 9%MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 → 11%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $250 → 8%FRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY: $1k → 10%GREENBELT ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $500 → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY: $1k → 10%GREENBELT ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $500 → 11%TAHOE PROSPERITY CENTER: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY: $1k → 10%GREENBELT ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $500 → 11%FRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY: $1k → 10%TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $500 → 11%ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB: $3k → 9%TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB: $1k → 9%TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB: $1k → 9%CITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTH: $2k → 10%NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB: $1k → 9%TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB: $1k → 9%TRI VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%CITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTH: $2k → 10%LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CE: $1k → 10%LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CE: $1k → 10%LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE VINEYARDS: $1k → 10%LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CE: $1k → 10%LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CE: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE VINEYARDS: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE VINEYARDS: $1k → 10%CITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTH: $1k → 10%OPEN HEART KITCHEN: $500 → 10%OPEN HEART KITCHEN: $500 → 10%OPEN HEART KITCHEN: $500 → 10%OPEN HEART KITCHEN: $500 → 10%OPEN HEART KITCHEN: $500 → 10%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.

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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$82k · 21 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
4

Total granted

$82k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+10%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NH
    NORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +8%
  • TD
    TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +6%
  • OH
    OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • UF
    UW-EC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • TP
    Tahoe Prosperity Center
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • LV
    LIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +10%

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
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
2
Truckee River Watershed Council

The truckee river watershed council was founded to implement locally developed public-private collaborative solutions to protect and improve water quality and biological resources for the sustainable environmental and economic health of…

Environment
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
5
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
6
Golden State Land Conservancy Inc

Promote conservation easements and resource management plans that conserve agriculture lands, forestlands, wildlife habitat, open space, and other natural resources, in perpetuity.

Environment
7
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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8
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative

Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.

Environment
9
Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust

The Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust works to protect and conserve agricultural lands, open space, and wildlife habitat in Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa counties for the benefit of current and future generations

—
10
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.

Unclassified
11
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
12
Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship

Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship is creating and maintaining world-class trails responsibly, sustainably, and collectively.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truckee Donner Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Balanced Growth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr18%45%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%16%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr18%51%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
3,652/29,219

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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UW-EC FOUNDATION SCHOLFIELD HALL 21 — $32,500 · OtherUW-EC FOUNDATION SCHOLFIELD HALL 21UW-EC FOUNDATION — $9,000 · OtherUW-EC FOUNDATIONNORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB INC — $6,500 · OtherNORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB INCFRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARY — $5,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LIVERMORE LIBRARYLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CE — $4,500 · OtherLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CECITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTH — $4,500 · OtherCITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTHFRIENDS OF THE VINEYARDS — $3,000 · Other+8 more — $4,400 · Other+8 moreTRI-VALLEY CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · Food & NutritionTRI-VALLEY CON…OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionOPEN HEART KIT…TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $2,500 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE D…ALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE — $2,500 · EnvironmentALAMEDA C…GREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $1,500 · EnvironmentGREENBELT…Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $1,250 · EnvironmentSouthern …+1 more — $200 · EnvironmentMANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,250 · Arts & CultureLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC — $400 · Arts & CultureKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $100 · Arts & CultureTahoe Prosperity Center — $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$69,400Food & Nutrition$12,500Environment$7,950Arts & Culture$2,750Community Improvement$2,500

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 budgetTRI-VALLEY CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH HIGH BOOSTER CLUB INC — $6,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCITIZENS FOR BALANCED GROWTH — $4,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTahoe Prosperity Center — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALAMEDA CREEK ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTERINC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION AIDING THE ELDERLY — $1,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIVERMORE VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Ridge Trail Council — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BLACK ROCK HIGH ROCK INC — $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…ImpactassetsincAmerican Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
The San Francisco FoundationCA13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Michael Fredrich Charitable 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 27 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.

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