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Childrens Health Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.8MHuman Services$312kFood & Nutrition$238kYouth Development$181kPublic Safety & Disaster$92kEducation$87kEmployment$37kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $191k
$14,775
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,379
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SD$20,000
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK$20,000
AUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO$18,500
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF VISTA$15,306
MANA DE SAN DIEGO$15,000
CHICANO FEDERATION OF SD COUNTY$14,775
SD CENTER FOR CHILDREN$11,575
ELIZABETH HOSPICE$10,500
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS$10,000
ONCOLOGY AND KIDS$10,000
CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE$9,753
HOME START$8,585
GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$8,561
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ONCOLOGY AND KIDS: $10k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $34k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $31k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%SBCS: $20k → 11%SBCS: $15k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $14k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $14k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $13k → 11%ELIZABETH HOSPICE: $11k → 11%GIRLS RISING: $10k → 11%ELIZABETH HOSPICE: $8k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $8k → 11%ELIZABETH HOSPICE: $8k → 11%ELIZABETH HOSPICE: $8k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $8k → 11%SBCS: $6k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $4k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 23 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
22

Total granted

$3.0M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+5%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IV
    IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +6%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN
    3× · 2022–2025 · $89k · revenue +23%
  • HO
    HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue -4%
  • JC
    JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -12%
  • JA
    JACOBS AND CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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2
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
3
Hannahs Family Center

Hannahs Family Center envisions a world where strong families enable children to thrive and communities to prosper. Since 1993, we have helped San Diego families navigate significant adverse changes, trauma and loss. As experts in…

Education
4
Community Information Exchange
Health
5
Imperial Beach Community Clinic

Operate clinics to providing primary healthcare to people of all ages in imperial beach and surrounding communities and southwest San Diego county place emphasis on patient satisfaction in a sensitive environment.

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6
San Diego Center for Children

Founded in 1887, the center is the oldest children's nonprofit in the region accredited by the joint commission for its excellence in quality of care. the center provides a continuum of therapeutic & educational services to youth &…

Human Services
7
New Alternatives Inc

New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.

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8
Santa Cruz Community Health Centers

Our mission is to improve the health of our patients and the community and advocate the feminist goals of social, political, & economic equality.

Health
9
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
10
Family Health Centers of San Diego Inc

Fhcsd's primary mission is to provide comprehensive, accessible and quality health care services to all income levels with a special committment to low income medically underserved individuals.

Health
11
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
12
Inland Behavioral & Health Services Inc

IBHS is dedicated to helping the community achieve and maintain general good health, education and welfare through commitment in providing excellent service in the areas of physical health care, substance abuse treatment, mental health…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home of Guiding Hands Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Imperial Valley Food Bank. 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

31 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. 31 of the 52 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,147,653 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSD CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,043,325 · OtherSD CENTER FOR CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient: $206,436 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $102,500 · Other+27 more: $429,535 · Other+27 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $89,355 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION: $41,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $33,750 · Human ServicesHOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION: $30,443 · Human ServicesCasa De Amparo: $15,500 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $14,350 · Human ServicesONCOLOGY AND KIDS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS RISING: $10,000 · Human ServicesSharp Healthcare Foundation: $27,952 · HealthEmilio Nares Foundation: $20,000 · HealthAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $13,800 · HealthCONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 · HealthVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,241 · HealthGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $8,561 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $5,000 · HealthMANA DE SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · EducationASELTINE SCHOOL: $12,108 · EducationJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionHOME START INC: $17,763 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDRENS INITIATIVE INC: $9,753 · PhilanthropyBurn Institute: $5,250 · Philanthropy
Other$2,929,449Human Services$244,398Health$97,554Education$27,108Food & Nutrition$25,000Crime & Legal$17,763Philanthropy$15,003

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 budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $102,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $89,355 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $33,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION: $30,443 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $27,952 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE: $23,174 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOME START INC: $17,763 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $15,965 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANA DE SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $14,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $13,800 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetASELTINE SCHOOL: $12,108 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $11,728 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,241 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS RISING: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS INITIATIVE INC: $9,753 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $8,561 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN ↗
  • Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds Emilio Nares Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC ↗
  • Who funds HOME START INC ↗
  • Who funds PALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
  • Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MANA DE SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ASELTINE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ONCOLOGY AND KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Cushman FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…Boys and Girls Aid So…Price Philanthropies …French Fund Samuel Ka…Sempra FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…David C Copley Founda…Leichtag Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA39.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Price Philanthropies Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Leichtag 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 Childrens Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Childrens Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Childrens Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Childrens Health 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 52 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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