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Red Husky Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$41MArts & Culture$6.0MCivil Rights$249kInternational$180kEducation$72kRecreation & Sports$29kEmployment$25kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $94k
$44,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$49,500
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco$44,200
United States Dressage Foundation$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Champion Charities: $7k → 8%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $50k → 10%Southern California Equestrian Sports: $25k → 11%Committee of 100 Inc: $20k → 17%Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund: $38.4M → 7%United States Dressage Foundation: $2k → 15%Leland Stanford Junior University: $24k → 8%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $50k → 10%Committe of 100 Inc: $5k → 17%Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund: $2.5M → 7%US Dressage Federation: $2k → 15%Leland Stanford Junior University: $24k → 8%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $50k → 10%Asian Cultural Council: $97k → 17%Leland Stanford Junior University: $24k → 8%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $50k → 10%Asia Society: $145k → 17%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $50k → 10%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $10k → 17%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $49k → 10%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $9k → 17%Angel Island Immigration Station Fo: $24k → 10%Albertine Foundation: $16k → 17%Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation: $12k → 10%Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Foundat: $49k → 17%Asian Art Museum: $5.0M → 10%Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Foundation: $14k → 17%Asian Art Museum Foundation: $98k → 10%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $14k → 17%San Francisco Ballet: $95k → 10%Committee of 100 Inc: $150k → 17%Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco: $64k → 10%Asian Art Museum: $50k → 10%Committee of 100 Inc: $50k → 10%Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco: $44k → 10%Angel Island Immigration Station FNDN: $10k → 10%Asia Society Northern California: $35k → 10%REDF: $25k → 10%Chinese Historical Society of America: $72k → 10%Save the Blue: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 87% of Red Husky Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Red Husky Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47M · 6 repeat orgs$681k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$47M
$679k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VC
    Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund
    2× · 2019–2020 · $41M
  • AA
    ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    5× · 2018–2025 · $5.3M · revenue -44%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    5× · 2019–2025 · $297k · revenue -17%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ASIA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $145k · revenue -4%
  • AC
    ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $97k · revenue +23%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $95k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
5
Asia Society Texas Center

Across the fields of performing arts, visual arts, education and outreach, business & policy, astc provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future. astc operates as a…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
8
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
10
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
11
Japan Society Inc

Japan society is the premier organization connecting japanese arts, culture, business, and society with audiences in new york and around the world. in fy2024, attendance onsite was 36.9k with 3.3k participating in online programs.

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Southern California Equestrian Sports. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Fund: $40,950,272 · OtherVanguard Charitable Endowment Fund+9 more: $172,533 · OtherASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5,279,942 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSE…SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $296,995 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $384,601 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $145,000 · InternationalASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $97,300 · InternationalASIA SOCIETY NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $35,000 · InternationalTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $72,100 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsREDF: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHRJ CHARITIES INC: $6,800 · Youth Development
Other$41,122,805Arts & Culture$5,961,538International$277,300Education$72,100Recreation & Sports$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$6,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5,279,942 over 5y, 10% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $296,995 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $170,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $145,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $97,300 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $95,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $72,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $71,725 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREDF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAngel Island Immigration Station Foundation: $21,652 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $18,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlbertine Foundation: $15,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $13,696 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC: $6,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES DRESSAGE FEDERATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Red Husky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Husky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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