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Plinth

· Public charity

Bid Foundation

Revitalize main street residential and commercial areas in san diego and increase the quality of life and economic well being of residents, employees, and businesses within such areas.

$632k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $606k
$34,624
Median grant
1
States reached
$282k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISCOVER PACIFIC BEACH$42,554
LA JOLLA VILLAGE MERCHANTS$40,404
HILLCREST BUSINESS ASSOC INC$40,192
EL CAJON BLVD BUS IMPRV ASSOC$37,573
DOWNTOWN SD PARTNERSHIP INC$36,451
EAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC$35,839
LITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION$35,678
ADAMS AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOC$35,245
NORTH PARK ORG OF BUS INC$35,024
COLLEGE AREA ECONOMIC DEV COR$34,675
CITY HEIGHTS CDC$34,624
CENTRAL SD BLACK CHAMBER COMM$34,071
MISSION HILLS BUS IMPRV DISTR$33,774
OLD TOWN SD CHAMBER OF COMMER$33,630
GASLAMP QUARTER ASSOC INC$32,967
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTH PARK ORG OF BUS INC: $35k → 11%MCKINLEY SCHOOL FDN OF SD: $10k → 11%SOUTH PARK BUSINESS GROUP INC: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: $8k → 11%LA JOLLA VILLAGE MERCHANTS: $40k → 11%FRIENDS OF LA JOLLA ELEM SCHO: $8k → 11%WALTER MUNK FDN FOR THE OCEAN: $8k → 11%CENTRAL SD BLACK CHAMBER COMM: $34k → 11%ADAMS AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOC: $35k → 11%HILLCREST BUSINESS ASSOC INC: $40k → 11%MISSION HILLS BUS IMPRV DISTR: $34k → 11%OCEAN BEACH MERCHANTS ASSOC: $33k → 11%EL CAJON BLVD BUS IMPRV ASSOC: $38k → 11%COLLEGE AREA ECONOMIC DEV COR: $35k → 11%OLD TOWN SD CHAMBER OF COMMER: $34k → 11%DISCOVER PACIFIC BEACH: $43k → 11%DOWNTOWN SD PARTNERSHIP INC: $36k → 11%EAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $36k → 11%LITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION: $36k → 11%GASLAMP QUARTER ASSOC INC: $33k → 11%CITY HEIGHTS CDC: $35k → 11%ALL FOR LOGAN: $10k → 11%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.

03Your 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
Downtown Berkeley Association

The Downtown Berkely Assocaition works to strengthen the Downtown as a vibrant and welcoming urban destination for arts, culture, and commerce through effective advocacy, prmotion and direct services.

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2
Building Industry Association of San Diego

The mission of the building industry association of san diego is to proactively promote a positive business environment for the land development, home building and commercial development industry throughout san diego county.

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3
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
4
Escondido Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the voice for businesses in Escondido providing leadership and guidance for the local small business community.

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5
North San Diego Business Chamber

To promote local and regional business to others.

Community Improvement
6
Downtown Chico Business Association

Promote interest and trade and beautify the downtown business environment.

Community Improvement
7
Corona Del Mar Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of Commerce - to promote businesses and serve the community of Corona Del Mar.

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8
Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce

Promote business in chula vista, ca.

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9
Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.

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10
The Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce

The otay mesa chamber of commerce is the premier san diego business organization providing its members with business resources and access to local and global markets.

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11
San Diego East County Chamber Fdn

The corporation was formed for public and charitable purposes including, without limitation, to operate a non profit organization to promote better understanding of business and its integral role in community development in the east san…

Crime & Legal
12
Forever Balboa Park

To sustain, envision, and enhance Balboa Park for all in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the Park and the community. Our vision for the Park is to maintain and enhance its stature as…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown San Diego Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Thomas Jefferson Elementary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr10%36%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%1%5–10yr21%26%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr10%41%35–55yr12%11%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
14%
2,129/14,739

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
2/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $40,192 · OtherHILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONEL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $37,573 · OtherEL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONDOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC — $36,451 · OtherDOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INCAdams Avenue Business Association Inc — $35,245 · OtherAdams Avenue Business Association IncNORTH PARK ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES INC — $35,024 · OtherNORTH PARK ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES INCOLD TOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $33,630 · OtherOLD TOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCEGASLAMP QUARTER ASSOCIATION — $32,967 · OtherGASLAMP QUARTER ASSOCIATIONOCEAN BEACH MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION INC — $32,933 · OtherOCEAN BEACH MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION INC+1 more — $7,500 · OtherTHE PACIFIC BEACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $42,554 · Community ImprovementTHE PACIFIC BEACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPLa Jolla Village Merchants Association — $40,404 · Community ImprovementLa Jolla Village Merchants AssociationEAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $35,839 · Community ImprovementEAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INCCOLLEGE AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $34,675 · Community ImprovementCOLLEGE AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $34,624 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONCounty of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce — $34,071 · Community ImprovementCounty of San Diego Black Chamber of CommerceMISSION HILLS BID — $33,774 · Community ImprovementMISSION HILLS BIDSouth Park Business Group — $10,000 · Community ImprovementALL FOR LOGAN — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO — $35,678 · Arts & CultureMCKINLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY — $7,500 · EducationWALTER MUNK FOUNDATION FOR THE OCEANS — $7,500 · Environment
Other$291,515Community Improvement$275,941Arts & Culture$35,678Education$17,500Environment$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PACIFIC BEACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $42,554 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLa Jolla Village Merchants Association — $40,404 over 1y, 12% of budgetHILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $40,192 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $37,573 over 1y, 16% of budgetDOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC — $36,451 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $35,839 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO — $35,678 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAdams Avenue Business Association Inc — $35,245 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNORTH PARK ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES INC — $35,024 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCOLLEGE AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $34,675 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $34,624 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSION HILLS BID — $33,774 over 1y, 16% of budgetOLD TOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $33,630 over 1y, 11% of budgetGASLAMP QUARTER ASSOCIATION — $32,967 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOCEAN BEACH MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION INC — $32,933 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSouth Park Business Group — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMCKINLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetALL FOR LOGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFRIENDS OF LA JOLLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY — $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

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.

Sempra FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Sempra FoundationCA11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · 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 Bid 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.

2025
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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