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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$2.6MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$760kYouth Development$580kHealth$575kEnvironment$100kAnimals$70kOther$1.3M
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $475k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ORDER OF ST JOHN$50,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$50,000
CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION$40,000
MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY$25,000
CPMC FOUNDATION$25,000
COMING HOME HOSPICE$25,000
WILDCARE$25,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
OKIZU$10,000
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:

Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $100k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $73k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $50k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $50k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $50k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $50k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $50k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $50k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $25k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 68% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Frances K & Charles D Field Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 20 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$5.9M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • CM
    CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +216%
  • HY
    HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $498k · revenue +90%
  • EC
    Episcopal Community Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $477k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PI
    PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • OO
    ORDER OF ST JOHN
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
10
Memorial Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

11
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Pacific Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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

22 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $1,055,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATIONHALCYON FOUNDATION — $425,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $400,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $295,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESMerola Opera Program — $245,000 · Arts & CultureMerola Opera ProgramMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $195,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY+1 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDE MARILLAC ACADEMY — $350,000 · OtherDE MARILLAC ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA — $315,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANACATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS — $150,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR …MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $75,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF SA…GRACE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL — $75,000 · OtherGRACE CATHEDRAL SCHOO…ORDER OF ST JOHN — $75,000 · OtherORDER OF ST JOHNOrder of St John Inc — $50,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND — $50,000 · OtherCOMING HOME HOSPICE — $50,000 · Other+5 more — $150,000 · Other+5 moreHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $498,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUT…Episcopal Community Services — $477,000 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Commun…+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $720,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF…+2 more — $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION — $580,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALIFORNI…CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $475,000 · HealthCALIFORNI…PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM — $100,000 · HealthPRIORY IN…SAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $70,200 · Animals
Arts & Culture$2,635,000Other$1,340,000Human Services$1,000,000Education$760,000Youth Development$580,000Health$575,000Environment$100,000Animals$70,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $1,055,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $720,000 over 9y, 0.0% 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 budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 37% 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 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
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.

  • 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 PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
  • Who funds SAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION
  • 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds WILDCARE
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

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.

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

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 The Frances K & Charles D Field 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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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.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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