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The Frances K & Charles D Field 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.

$635k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation 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; $100k 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 & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$560k14%
FY202415$850k13%
FY202313$755k8%
FY202216$840k31%
FY202115$775k20%
FY20209$735k0%
FY201911$605k9%
FY201813$595k23%
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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 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.9MEducation$1.6MHealth$750kHuman Services$517kYouth Development$498kScience & Tech$295kEnvironment$100kAnimals$95kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $1,055,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Missions Foundation: $580,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetHuckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $498,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $477,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Pacific Medical Center Foundation: $475,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHalcyon Foundation: $425,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetSan Francisco Symphony: $400,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $295,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMerola Opera Program: $245,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMarin Shakespeare Company: $195,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSave Napa Valley Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetPriory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMeals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Trout Inc: $70,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOkizu Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe University of Montana Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildcare: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $15,000 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 20.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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How do I get to The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation

How much does The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation give?
The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $635,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (23%), Health (11%).
Who are The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Opera Association ($1.1M), California Missions Foundation ($580k), Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc ($498k).
Does The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation 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 Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation based?
The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation 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 32 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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