· Private foundation
Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO LTD’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SAN DIEGO | $39,750 |
| BITHIAH'S FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| NEW HAVEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,700 |
| ART HATCH | $5,000 |
| LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BORREGO SPRINGS CHILDRENS CENTER | $5,000 |
| A REASON TO SURVIVE ARTS | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGO OPERA | $5,000 |
| STUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS | $5,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| TIMKEN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| OUTSIDE THE LENS | $5,000 |
| MAMA'S KITCHEN | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 9 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCOMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $169k · revenue +19% · 35% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO3× · 2023–2025 · $113k · revenue +25%
- MKMAMA'S KITCHEN7× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- HFHANNAHS FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -34%
- WFWALDEN FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SDSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.
Harmonium is a nonprofit 501c3 organization that reaches more than 30,000 San Diegans annually. Our collaborative, innovative programs provide quality integrated services that are culturally appropriate, trauma informed and customized to…
Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…
The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
We help children discover a way of dealing with life that is realistic, comfortable, and satisfying. Self-confidence is nurtured as children learn to rely on themselves and each other. The noncompetitive environment is one that allows each…
The mission of Buen Dia Corporation is to pioneer innovative, developmentally-appropriate educational practices and to embrace a diversity of culture and thought for children, youth and families. The heart of the organization is an…
Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…
The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is Aya Art Co. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
110 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. 110 of the 190 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE THE LENS ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HANNAHS FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS ↗
- Who funds Girl Rising ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FINE PRINT FUNDING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd 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.
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.