· Private foundation
California Institute of Contemporary Art
Its FY2020 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $339k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS DIVISION | $45,000 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN MILITARY MUSIC | $40,000 |
| LAMBDA ARCHIVES SAN DIEGO | $34,259 |
| A REASON TO SURVIVE ARTS | $32,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ART WITH IMPACT | $20,000 |
| EAST COUNTY YOUTH COMPANY | $20,000 |
| DIVERIONARY THEATRE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UPSTREAM ARTS INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| RAISE A CHILD | $12,000 |
| WONDERLUST PRODUCTIONS | $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 (FY17–20, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ARA Reason To Survive3× · 2017–2020 · $102k · revenue +48%
- ADArt Division3× · 2018–2020 · $95k · revenue +79%
- TCThe Center for American Military Music Opportuntie3× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +87% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- SMSt Madeleine Sophies Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +43%
- OIOne in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beachgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +93%
- LALOVE AFTER WAR LLCone grant, 2018 · $16k
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.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
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…
Pacific Arts Movement presents Pan Asian media arts to San Diego residents and visitors in order to inspire, entertain, and support a more compassionate society.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
Primary mission and purpose is to nurture and support media artists working in multimedia
ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…
Art2Action creates, develops, produces, and presents original theatre, interdisciplinary performances, artistic interventions, and progressive cultural organizing. We support Black, Indigenous, artists of color, women and queer or…
Founded in 1978, World Arts West is a nationally-recognized leader in advocating for cultural arts communities. Serving the largest multicultural dance and music network in the United States, we are a wraparound cultural artist service…
Awakenings provides survivors of sexual violence with a trauma-informed, inclusive art making experience that encourages healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstream Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Art and Thought. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 A Reason To Survive ↗
- Who funds Art Division ↗
- Who funds The Center for American Military Music Opportuntie ↗
- Who funds Lambda Archives of San Diego ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART WITH IMPACT ↗
- Who funds Green Wish Inc ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Raise A Child Incorporated ↗
- Who funds UPSTREAM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ART AND THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc ↗
- Who funds One in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach ↗
- Who funds THE AJA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERLUST PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
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 San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 California Institute of Contemporary Art 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
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.