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Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC | $30,000 |
| CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THEATRE & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SPEED OF CHANGE INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SPEED OF CHANGE INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,750 |
| BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,750 |
| PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT | $5,000 |
| KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| OLD GLOBE THEATRE | $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 (FY23–25, $63k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +43% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- SDSan Diego Parks Foundation2× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +553%
- TNTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +43%
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -18%
- NFNTC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -3%
- SDSan Diego Council on Literacyone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -68%
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.
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…
To support san diego county performing arts organizations, and to promote audience development by providing resources, services, and collaborative partnerships.
To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
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…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Globe Theatre and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 27 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 THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE US ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ↗
- Who funds THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Bravo Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Sempra 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 Capdevilla Gillespie 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.
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.
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