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Briggs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$4.3MPhilanthropy$2.4MReligion$924kEducation$573kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$8kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$300,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$300,000
THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONOR FLIGHT: $3k → 15%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 11%CITY HOPE: $3k → 10%THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
DE
NM
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 49 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
61

Total granted

$5.8M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

47%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    4× · 2017–2020 · $3.2M · revenue +82%
  • IH
    IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $648k · revenue +38%
  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $313k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • RS
    RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • HC
    HEALTH CENTER WELLNESS FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • UZ
    UPAYA ZEN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Research Center; the most unlike its peers is City Hope San Francisco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 115 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
48/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCRIPPS HEALTH: $3,201,500 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $647,500 · HealthIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION+5 more: $8,350 · HealthDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,222,667 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING…RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $870,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATIONTHE FULLER FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FULLER FOUNDATION+4 more: $3,700 · PhilanthropyVILLAGE COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $883,037 · OtherVILLAGE COMMUNITY PRE…BLANK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL UNITYPOINT HEALTH: $364,500 · OtherBLANK CHILDREN'S HOSP…RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+74 more: $229,044 · Other+74 moreDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $312,500 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $182,500 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTER: $22,500 · Education+7 more: $5,900 · EducationTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureCOASTAL COMMUNITIES CONCERT BAND FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $675 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO: $3,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $1,600 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEASTERN NEVADA: $1,000 · Youth Development
Health$3,857,350Philanthropy$2,346,367Other$1,551,581Education$523,400Arts & Culture$17,675Human Services$8,100Youth Development$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $3,201,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,222,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $870,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $647,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $312,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FULLER FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $182,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTER: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITIES CONCERT BAND FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP MILLENNIUM: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRotary Camp Pendleton Foundation fka Pendleton Community Service Fund: $2,600 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVanderbilt University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElkton Community Education Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEASTERN NEVADA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $675 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO ENGLISH: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTIBULAR DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE LEGENDS: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurn Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PHILATELIC SOCIETY: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETH E PATTERSON BLADDER CANCER: $300 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITIES CONCERT BAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MILLENNIUM ↗
  • Who funds CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds Rotary Camp Pendleton Foundation fka Pendleton Community Service Fund ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗

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.

Rancho Santa Fe Found…The San Diego Foundat…David C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Donors Trust IncThe Intuit FoundationH & R Peters Family F…Eric Javits Family Fo…Diana Davis Spencer F…Sempra FoundationThe Yelp Foundation
Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Intuit Foundation · H & R Peters Family Foundation · Eric Javits Family Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · The Yelp Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Briggs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Briggs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Elkton Community Education Center: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 115 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home