· 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 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.
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 |
| Richards Institute | $10,000 |
| Vista Adult School | $10,000 |
| Escondido Educational Foundation | $5,000 |
| Fallbrook Senior Care | $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 |
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 (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 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 +39% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 30 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David T and Dorris E Staples Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David T and Dorris E Staples Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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