· Private foundation
Current Wisdom
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVID T AND DORRIS E STAPLES FOUNDA | $967,225 |
| DAVID T AND DORRIS E STAPLES FOUNDA | $542,247 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 9 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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DTDAVID T AND DORRIS E STAPLES FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +66%
- UBUPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE2× · 2018–2019 · $22k · revenue +96%
- EEESCONDIDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- VAVISTA ADULT SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $15k
- TRTHE RICHARDS INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $11k
- KCKIDS COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -10%
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.
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.
None
To enhance young peoples minds through education, application and exploration of the Performing Arts. It further strives to provide each child with a feeling of self-identity and purpose.
Parent Teacher Association providing Programming and Student enrichment support to Sutter Elementary School students. Support includes computer and science, music and art enrichment, assemblies, book fairs, STEAM initiatives, 5th grade…
Artsmart is dedicated to the urgent need for school children in santa fe to receive art education and art supplies in addition, artsmart is providing art education to children ages 8 through 18. this program provides opportunities for self…
After school enrichment program
Empower people with disabilities, and their families, through creative expression and sensory exploration. STEP VA leads with values and beliefs that recognize that all people can develop to their full potential and engage in a just,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DAVID T AND DORRIS E STAPLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE ↗
- Who funds ESCONDIDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Playwrights Project ↗
- Who funds REINS INC ↗
- Who funds Fallbrook Art Association ↗
- Who funds San Marcos Elementary School PTO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INTERFACE SERVICES ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Current Wisdom funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Current Wisdom. Bigger dots raise more.
- Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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