How much did DAVID W HEARST JR FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of DAVID W HEARST JR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

chartiable

2021

food bankchartiable

2022

chartiablekids

2023

battling criticalcritical illnessfireoutreachchartiableyouthchildren

2024

hurricane helenecamerahealthveteransshelteryouth

2025

operationreliefresourcewarriors

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $3k
$10k–50k19 grants · $488k
$50k–250k10 grants · $760k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$41k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$200,000
COMPANION ANIMAL CENTER$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$100,000
REMARKABLE MEN'S PRACTICE$60,000
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES$50,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$50,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$50,000
OUR MILITARY KIDS$50,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$50,000
HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS$40,000
KIDS TURN SAN DIEGO$40,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$35,000
WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION$34,250
CASA DE AMPARO$30,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $597k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.1M · 38 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+44%

Still filing today

68%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPublic BenefitHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

TS
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +69%
NY
NEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +60%
SD
SAN DIEGO NICE GUYS INC
4× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +3%

Funded once

CC
CLEVELAND CLINIC
one grant, 2021 · $500k
SH
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $200k
VF
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation improves the quality of life within all of our communities.

Philanthropy

United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child & family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy

San Diego Workforce Partnership Inc

To provide regional employment and training services that include the development and creation of job opportunities, training, education, and other services needed to enable individuals to secure and retain employment.

Employment

Regional Task Force On the Homeless

RTFH exists to reduce and end homelessness in San Diego, ensuring that if this situation does happen for anyone, it remains a rare, brief and non-recurring instance; not an outcome.

Human Services

San Diego Youth Services

To help at-risk youth and their families become self-sufficient and reach their highest potential.

Human Services

Voice of San Diego

Investigative journalism for a better san diego.

Arts & Culture

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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Vietnam Veterans of San Diego

Vvsd connects with american veterans to overcome their homelessness and related challenges.

Public Benefit

Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

Providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy

San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

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Downtown San Diego Partnership Inc

Advancing the economic prosperity and cultural vitality of downtown san diego.

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San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care For All San Diegans

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Street Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is George Eastman Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/73

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,905

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.

05the grantee network

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/71

Grantees still filing

58/71

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,572,750Health$715,000Human Services$596,750Education$325,000Public Benefit$287,500Philanthropy$235,000Arts & Culture$200,000

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.

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.

The San Diego FoundationCA47.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · St Germaine Children's Charity · Boys and Girls Aid Society

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 organisation DAVID W HEARST JR 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REMARKABLE MENS PRACTICE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 873192910 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REMARKABLE MENS PRACTICE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to David W Hearst Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David W Hearst Jr Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DAVID W HEARST JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to David W Hearst Jr Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DAVID W HEARST JR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to David W Hearst Jr Foundation?

More from the funding graph