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Debra E and Warner C Lusardi 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.

$140k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$140k60%
FY20237$130k43%
FY20226$100k50%
FY20214$90k50%
FY20206$75k50%
FY201911$90k64%
FY201812$68k75%
FY20175$136kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$392kRecreation & Sports$140kEducation$72kReligion$55kCommunity Improvement$50kCrime & Legal$35kArts & Culture$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
NV
CA
VA
MD
AZ
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scripps Health$55,00020%
Church at the Red Door$50,0001n/a
San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudation$50,00041%
Challenged Athletes Inc$45,00030%
Sharp Healthcare Foundation$40,00020%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,00020%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$35,00030%
Pacific Legal Foundation$35,00020%
The Well Surgical Gifts Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Afe Foundation$15,00014%
First Liberty Institute$15,0001n/a
Uc San Diego Foundation$10,00010%
Tri-City Hospital Foundation$6,00020%
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$5,00010%
The Salvation Army$4,2001n/a
Nice Guys$3,0001n/a
Don Diego Scholarship Foundation$1,70020%
Rancho Santa Fe Seniors Inc$1,00010%
Old Mission San Luis Rey$2001n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($393k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScripps Health: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudation: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAfe Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri-City Hospital Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSan Diego Humane Society and Spca: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDon Diego Scholarship Foundation: $1,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRancho Santa Fe Seniors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 San Diego FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation

How much does Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation give?
Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $140,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (45%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Education (8%).
Who are Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Scripps Health ($55k), Church at the Red Door ($50k), San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudation ($50k).
Does Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation based?
Debra E and Warner C Lusardi Foundation is based in NV.

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 37 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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