· Private foundation
David T and Dorris E Staples 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of DAVID T AND DORRIS E STAPLES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CCAE Trust | $255,000 |
| Interfaith Community Services | $40,000 |
| California Center for the Arts | $36,650 |
| CSUSM | $25,000 |
| Vista Adult School | $10,000 |
| Richards Institute | $10,000 |
| Fallbrook Senior Care | $5,000 |
| Escondido Educational Foundation | $5,000 |
| Green Acres Interactive Therapy | $5,000 |
| Empower Me Up | $5,000 |
| Fallbrook Union school District | $1,000 |
| San Pasqual High School Band | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Fallbrook Library | $750 |
| Fallbrook High School | $500 |
| Poway United School District | $300 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) 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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
- UBUPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE2× · 2019–2020 · $295k · revenue +24% · 53% of their budget
- ICInterfaith Community Services Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $264k · revenue +79%
- ECESCONDIDO CHORAL ARTS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $41k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- BEBonsall Education Foundationone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -40%
- KCKIDS COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -10%
- ECEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -15%
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.
Support programs at schools in SGVUSD
To Promote interest in music & education
Enhancing interest in music and the arts
Youth Orchestra
The family school is dedicated to providing a superior environment of child centered academic and creative programs which inspire a joy of learning and support critical thinking. we strive to prepare students to be compassionate,…
Education
Promote art and artists in the communities of Fallbrook and Bonsall.
Provide musical training and instruction for 250 students. The youth orchestra performs concerts.
To promote stamp collecting
Provide financial support to the Goleta Valley Library Goleta CA.
The San Diego Early Music Society (SDEMS) fosters the appreciation and performance of early music (music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods) in the greater San Diego area through concert presentations. SDEMS seeks to…
We provide quality early childhood education and day care for children ages one to five years. We strive to promote each childs intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development in preparation for kindergarten.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fallbrook Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Empower Me Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 30 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 UPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER ME UP ↗
- Who funds ESCONDIDO CHORAL ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA TEEN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bonsall Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREEN ACRES INTERACTIVE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FALLBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR WELLBEING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FALLBROOK LIBRARY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 T and Dorris E Staples 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.
- Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne — 30% 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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