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Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust

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.

$581k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 30
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalScience & TechAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving25$481k52%
FY202422$368k18%
FY202325$373k16%
FY202224$353k8%
FY202126$375k8%
FY202030$357kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$636kArts & Culture$520kScience & Tech$493kEducation$310kAnimals$245kFood & Nutrition$240kEnvironment$101kInternational$90kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$250,00050%
Westside Food Bank$125,00031%
Young Musicians Foundation$120,00062%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$90,00060%
Zoological Society of San Diego$85,00050%
California Science Center Foundation$70,00060%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$60,00050%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$50,00020%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$50,00010%
Los Angeles Food Bank$50,0002n/a
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$250,00050%
Westside Food Bank$125,00031%
Young Musicians Foundation$120,00062%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$90,00060%
Zoological Society of San Diego$85,00050%
California Science Center Foundation$70,00060%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$60,00050%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$50,00020%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$50,00010%
Los Angeles Food Bank$50,0002n/a
Beit T'Shuvah$45,00050%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$35,00050%
The Maple Counseling Center$35,00051%
Oshman Family Jewish Community Center$35,00020%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$35,0002n/a
Hias Inc$30,00030%
Griffith Observatory Foundation$25,00011%
San Francisco Opera Association$25,00010%
Skirball Cultural Center$25,00030%
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University$25,00040%
American Cancer Society Inc$25,00010%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association$25,00010%
Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging$16,00020%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$15,00010%
Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles$15,00020%
Living Desert The$10,00010%
Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo$10,00011%
California Academy of Sciences$10,00010%
Jewish Film Institute$10,0001n/a
California Institute of Technology$5,00010%
International Documentary Foundation Inc$5,00010%
National Organization for Rare Disorders Inc$1,00010%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($893k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWestside Food Bank: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Musicians Foundation: $120,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetZoological Society of San Diego: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Science Center Foundation: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter Theatre Group of Los Angeles: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maple Counseling Center: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOshman Family Jewish Community Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHias Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGriffith Observatory Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkirball Cultural Center: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Bar-Ilan University: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Zoological Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Big Kitchen Los Angeles: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Desert The: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Institute of Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Documentary Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Organization for Rare Disorders Inc: $1,000 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 29.

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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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Schlum Charitable Tru…The Ralph M Parsons F…Silicon Valley Commun…The Annenberg Foundat…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…
The Ahmanson FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Schlum Charitable Trust Ua Mar 5 1990 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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About Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust

How much does Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust give?
Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $581,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Arts & Culture (18%), Science & Tech (17%).
Who are Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($250k), Westside Food Bank ($125k), Young Musicians Foundation ($120k).
Does Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust 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 Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ahmanson Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation.
Where is Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust based?
Virginia Friedhofer Charitable Trust 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 57 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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