· Private foundation
David C Copley 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC DBA FATHER JOE'S VILLAGES | $2,502,000 |
| TRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,323,800 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO | $500,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $430,000 |
| UNITED WOMENS EAST AFRICAN SUPPORT TEAM | $300,000 |
| SAN DIEGO OASIS | $250,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $200,000 |
| EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER | $159,000 |
| OUTDOOR OUTREACH | $105,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SAN DIEGO | $102,000 |
| EJE ACADEMIES | $100,000 |
| KITCHENS FOR GOOD | $70,000 |
| SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK | $67,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO INC | $67,208 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
189 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
- THTRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +628% · 90% of their budget
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +124%- ICInterfaith Community Services Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +70%
Funded once
- SHSharp Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -27%
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +55%
- SDSAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTIONone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +24%
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans
The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…
The organization's mission is to provide funding for the best cancer research ideas in san diego. all proceeds from curebound stay in san diego to fund innovative and collaborative cancer research.
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
259 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. 259 of the 298 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds United Women of East Africa Support Team ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GENERATEHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
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: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 David C Copley 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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