California · Private foundation
The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund
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.
- $968k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $890k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $795k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $839k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $928k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $768k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $805k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Independent Institute | $400,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Marin General Hospital Foundation | $290,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The American Conservative | $205,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Mission San Juan Bautista Preservation Fund | $195,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Menlo School | $181,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Buckelew Programs | $180,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Marin Catholic High School | $180,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Benedictine Fathers of the Priory | $155,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Louise M Davies Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Greater Horizons · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
Compare The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund with peer funders
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About The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund
- How much does The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund give?
- The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund reported 53 grants totaling $967,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Independent Institute ($400k), Pacific Legal Foundation ($350k), Marin General Hospital Foundation ($290k).
- Does The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Charles D & Frances K Field 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 The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Louise M Davies Foundation.
- Where is The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund based?
- The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund is based in CA.
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