· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM | $85,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $65,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $50,000 |
| ORDER OF ST JOHN | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| COMING HOME HOSPICE | $25,000 |
| CPMC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WILDCARE | $25,000 |
| MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO | $10,000 |
| OKIZU | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 68%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +216%
- HYHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $498k · revenue +90%
- ECEpiscopal Community Services9× · 2017–2025 · $477k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PIPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEMone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -7%
- OOORDER OF ST JOHNone grant, 2024 · $75k
- HBHOMEWARD BOUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALCYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Merola Opera Program ↗
- Who funds MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds Order of St John Inc ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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