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Chrysalis Ventures 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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$21kArts & Culture$12kReligion$10kHealth$3kEducation$2kAnimals$1kPhilanthropy$750Youth Development$550Other$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,450
ZUMA'S RESCUE RANCH$900
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$625
LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY$500
C S LEWIS FESTIVAL INC$250
LAS PATRONAS$250
UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$250
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200
ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$200
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION$150
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION$100
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $3k → 11%UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $250 → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $700 → 17%UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $250 → 8%BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 9%ZUMA'S RESCUE RANCH: $900 → 3%THE COLE COLLECTION: $775 → 5%LIMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $400 → 15%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $2k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $625 → 17%BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 9%THE COLE COLLECTION: $250 → 5%LIMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%ST GERMAINE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $1k → 11%BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 9%THE COLE COLLECTION: $250 → 5%WALDENS FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 11%BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 9%THE COLE COLLECTION: $250 → 5%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $500 → 11%C S LEWIS FESTIVAL INC: $500 → 9%WALDENS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%C S LEWIS FESTIVAL INC: $250 → 9%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $500 → 11%C S LEWIS FESTIVAL INC: $250 → 9%WALDENS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 11%ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $500 → 11%ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $300 → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $2k → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $2k → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $2k → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $1k → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $1k → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $1k → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $893 → 11%CAMARADA ORGANIZATION: $450 → 11%LAS PATRONAS: $3k → 11%LAS PATRONAS: $2k → 11%LAS PATRONAS: $2k → 11%LAS PATRONAS: $1k → 11%WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $770 → 11%SALVATION ARMY - WOMEN OF DEDICATION: $500 → 11%WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $600 → 11%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $500 → 11%SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY: $300 → 11%SALVATION ARMY WOMENS AUXILIARY: $300 → 11%MONARCH SCHOOL: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
OH
CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$56k · 19 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
19

Total granted

$56k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

53%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • TB
    THE BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +48%
  • LP
    LAS PATRONAS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +17%
  • EI
    ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SG
    ST GERMAINE CHILDREN'S CHARITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -5%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -11%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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2
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
3
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
4
Forever Balboa Park

To sustain, envision, and enhance Balboa Park for all in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the Park and the community. Our vision for the Park is to maintain and enhance its stature as…

Religion
5
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
6
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…

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7
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
8
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
9
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
10
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
11
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
12
Associated Students of San Diego State University

To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association 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.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%48%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%7%20–35yr11%4%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,948

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $11,689 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAS PATRONAS — $8,639 · OtherLAS PATRONASWALDENS FAMILY SERVICES — $8,110 · OtherWALDENS FAMILY SERVICESPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $1,625 · OtherCOLE COLLECTION INC — $1,525 · OtherWALDEN FAMILY SERVICES — $1,370 · Other+25 more — $7,490 · Other+25 moreTHE BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,250 · Community ImprovementTHE BAY VIEW ASSOC…LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY — $5,500 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MUSIC…THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO …SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $650 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSE…THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $500 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS…+2 more — $200 · Arts & CultureST GERMAINE CHILDREN'S CHARITY — $1,325 · Crime & LegalPATRONS OF THE PRADO — $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $250 · PhilanthropyZuma's Rescue Ranch — $900 · AnimalsTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $250 · AnimalsELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $1,000 · Science & Tech
Other$40,448Community Improvement$10,250Arts & Culture$7,850Crime & Legal$1,325Philanthropy$1,250Animals$1,150Science & Tech$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BAY VIEW ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAS PATRONAS — $8,639 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY — $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST GERMAINE CHILDREN'S CHARITY — $1,325 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATRONS OF THE PRADO — $1,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetZuma's Rescue Ranch — $900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lima Community Foundation — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBODIAN VILLAGE FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationResmed FoundationKerr Family FoundationDr Seuss FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…The Cushman FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Farrell Family Founda…
The San Diego FoundationCA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Resmed Foundation · Kerr Family Foundation · Dr Seuss Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Farrell Family 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 Chrysalis Ventures 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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