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David C Copley Foundation at a glance

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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.

$8.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$13MHuman Services$9.3MArts & Culture$5.1MHousing & Shelter$4.9MEducation$2.7MScience & Tech$1.6MYouth Development$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.6M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$104M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$250,000
SAN DIEGO OASIS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $200k → 14%HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE INC: $35k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $125k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $103k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $225k → 11%THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $65k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $125k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $55k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $102k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $77k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $29k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $27k → 11%NOAH HOMES: $125k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $100k → 11%UNITED WOMENS EAST AFRICAN SUPPORT TEAM: $300k → 11%UNITED WOMENS EAST AFRICAN SUPPORT TEAM: $36k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $115k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $260k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $50k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION: $27k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $250k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $26k → 11%SAN DIEGO OASIS: $250k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $54k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $53k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $52k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $52k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $51k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $48k → 11%COPLEY FAMILY YMCA: $40k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $250k → 11%REGIONAL TASK FORCE ON THE HOMELESS: $142k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $100k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $50k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $100k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $100k → 11%COMMUNITY ELDERCARE OF SAN DIEGO: $200k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $106k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $30k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $30k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%BARRIO STATION: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
HI
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 188 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

188 repeat relationships: 107 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

188
90

Total granted

$41M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+25%

Still filing today

85%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • TH
    TRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +628% · 90% of their budget
  • ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +124%
  • IC
    Interfaith Community Services Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -30%
  • TS
    THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +55%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S RETIREMENT HOMES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -47%
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
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

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…

Social Science
5
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
6
San Diego Housing Federation

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…

Education
7
Curebound

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.

Health
8
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

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…

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9
Dreams for Change Inc

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.

Human Services
10
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
11
San Diego County Bar Association

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,…

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12
Scripps Health

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)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

259 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 259 of the 297 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
80
Early backer (in before they grew)
254/259
Grantees still filing
186/259
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Interfaith Community Services Inc: $1,305,000 · OtherInterfaith Community Services IncSHARP HEALTHCARE SAN DIEGO INC: $1,000,000 · OtherSHARP HEALTHCARE SAN DIEGO INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $809,300 · OtherSAN DIEGO ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $779,750 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $691,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $600,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $585,500 · OtherThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $750,000 · Other+94 more: $10,736,787 · Other+94 moreRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $5,172,000 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $336,000 · Philanthropy+11 more: $838,000 · Philanthropy+11 moreYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $748,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $470,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…United Women of East Africa Support Team: $350,500 · Human ServicesUnited Women of…CRISIS HOUSE: $316,500 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $304,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $301,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OASIS: $296,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $295,000 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INC: $285,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $284,150 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INC: $237,500 · Human ServicesRise Up Industries: $226,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $202,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ELDERCARE OF SAN DIEGO DBA ST PAUL'S PACE: $200,000 · Human Services+21 more: $1,462,869 · Human Services+21 moreTRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,624,800 · HealthTRI-CITY HOSP…Sharp Healthcare Foundation: $500,000 · HealthSharp Healthc…THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $275,000 · HealthFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC: $227,000 · Health+11 more: $624,000 · Health+11 moreMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DI…THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & …+13 more: $634,283 · Arts & Culture+13 moreOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $862,309 · EducationSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $552,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $335,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $312,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $205,000 · EducationBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $170,000 · EducationNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $160,000 · EducationREADING LITERACY LEARNING INC: $129,000 · EducationREALITY CHANGERS: $126,000 · Education+7 more: $380,631 · EducationST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $2,712,182 · ReligionTERI Inc: $100,000 · Religion+1 more: $16,000 · Religion
Other$17,257,337Philanthropy$6,346,000Human Services$5,978,519Health$5,250,800Arts & Culture$4,234,283Education$3,231,940Religion$2,828,182

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $5,172,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,624,800 over 4y, 90% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $3,000,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $2,712,182 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $1,305,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $862,309 over 8y, 15% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $750,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $748,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $691,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $600,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $585,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $552,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $520,750 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $470,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $382,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $353,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUnited Women of East Africa Support Team: $350,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $350,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $337,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $336,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $335,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME START INC: $323,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCRISIS HOUSE: $316,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $312,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $304,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $301,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS: $296,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $295,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $285,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $284,150 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $256,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetST PAUL'S RETIREMENT HOMES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $250,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $243,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC: $237,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC: $227,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRise Up Industries: $226,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $223,400 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLA JOLLA GOLDEN TRIANGLE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $219,416 over 8y, 33% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $205,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $202,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ELDERCARE OF SAN DIEGO DBA ST PAUL'S PACE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $199,708 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $197,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $186,459 over 8y, 0.9% 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 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 ↗

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 Conrad Prebys Fou…Price Philanthropies …The San Diego Foundat…The Cushman FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Parker FoundationJewish Community Foun…Pratt Memorial FundSempra FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…Samuel I & John Henry…
The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA174.8× affinity95 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 David C Copley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David C Copley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
90report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to David C Copley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David C Copley 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 297 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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