· Private foundation
Costello Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Americans Serving African Children | $20,000 |
| CK-12 Foundation | $20,000 |
| Foundation for a College Education | $20,000 |
| Operation Bootstrap Africa | $10,000 |
| Room to Read | $5,000 |
| Wells4Wellness | $4,000 |
| East County Youth Symphony | $3,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCK-12 Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +13%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +17%
- OBOPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CDCasa De Los Pobres US Agraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +79%
- GCGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +43%
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -12%
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.
Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.
A is for Africa is an educational foundation focusing education and health among the Maasai people of Tanzania East Africa. Our primary work involves providing educational support to the local government schools in the way of a school…
To make safe drinking water available to as many students as possible through scalable and lasting solutions, ensuring every student can learn and thrive with safe water. see schedule o.
Developing free advanced educational technologies to benefit students around the world.Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids worldwide to build a foundation for their future by engaging in free educational activities powered by…
Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.
Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
Chemists without borders is a global humanitarian organization committed to sustainable and equitable solutions that empower communities and improve overall well-being. our strategic framework is: service - developing, facilitating, and…
The mission of the charter school is to cultivate within all of our students the mindset, skills, creativity, and commitment to equity essential in becoming globally aware and independently minded citizens.
In keeping with our mission, our programs focus on: (1) digital learning; (2) community libraries; and (3) therapeutic arts. see schedule o for more detail.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Ck-12 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 CK-12 Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP-AFRICA ↗
- Who funds WELLS 4 WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Casa De Los Pobres US A ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds International Association for Child Aid ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · 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 Costello Family Foundation Inc 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.