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Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation at a glance

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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.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$282kArts & Culture$253kRecreation & Sports$110kScience & Tech$68kHuman Services$49kCommunity Improvement$23kEmployment$17kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE$50,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC$30,000
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$25,000
THEATRE & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$10,000
SPEED OF CHANGE INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$10,000
UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$10,000
SPEED OF CHANGE INC$10,000
BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$6,750
BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$6,750
KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION$5,000
OLD GLOBE THEATRE$5,000
PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%NAMM FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NAMM FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%SPEED OF CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%SPEED OF CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%SPEED OF CHANGE INC: $8k → 11%SPEED OF CHANGE INC: $8k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 75%.

Capdevilla Gillespie Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 15 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$546k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-18%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SD
    San Diego Parks Foundation
    2× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +553%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +43%
  • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -18%
  • NF
    NTC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -3%
  • SD
    San Diego Council on Literacy
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -68%
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
San Diego Theatre Critics Circle

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
3
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
4
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Theatres Inc

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),…

Arts & Culture
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
San Diego Junior Theatre

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…

—
8
Sport Innovators

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…

Philanthropy
9
San Diego Performing Arts League

To support san diego county performing arts organizations, and to promote audience development by providing resources, services, and collaborative partnerships.

Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

—
11
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Globe Theatre; 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.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $132,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATIONMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION …OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTEKYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION: $15,000 · EducationBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EducationTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $77,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUS…THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $72,500 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF …PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENTOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $10,475 · Arts & CultureNTC FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF S…MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $20,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF PHOTO…Montclair State University: $17,500 · OtherMontclair State…SD Regional Economic Development Fn: $13,500 · OtherSD Regional Eco…INSPIRE US: $10,000 · OtherINSPIRE USTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $6,500 · OtherTHEATRE COMMUNI…+2 more: $6,150 · Other+2 moreSan Diego Parks Foundation: $110,000 · Recreation & SportsSan Diego Parks…SPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO: $35,000 · Human ServicesNAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation: $14,000 · Human ServicesBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,000 · PhilanthropySan Diego Council on Literacy: $7,737 · PhilanthropyCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $7,500 · PhilanthropySAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Education$282,000Arts & Culture$212,975Other$113,650Recreation & Sports$110,000Human Services$62,500Philanthropy$25,237Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $132,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Parks Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC: $77,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $72,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $40,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPEED OF CHANGE INC DBA TEDXSANDIEGO: $35,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $13,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $10,475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRE US: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNTC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Council on Literacy: $7,737 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The San Diego Foundat…The Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Price Philanthropies …Samuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundRancho Santa Fe Found…The Bravo FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…Sempra Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Capdevilla Gillespie Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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