· Private foundation
Dorothea Tuney 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 71 grants below total $45,999 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $74,179 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,180 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k70 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NTC Foundation | $10,000 |
| Old Town San Deigo Foundation | $7,000 |
| ABA Foundation | $3,600 |
| Alzheimers Foundation of America | $2,526 |
| Ymca of San Dieg | $2,177 |
| Volunteer | $2,083 |
| Zachary Horton Foundation | $1,400 |
| T Claude & Glady | $1,304 |
| Obpta | $1,250 |
| Friends of Chula Vista Parks and Recreation | $1,100 |
| The Well Community Church | $1,000 |
| Point Loma Foundation | $800 |
| Seedling | $773 |
| Tbtal | $631 |
| Aurora | $534 |
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 (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- MAMEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO5× · 2017–2021 · $395k · revenue +60%
- P3PERFECT 33 FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +43%
- GCGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- MAMedia Arts Center of San Diegoone grant, 2022 · $53k
- NTNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +93%
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +111%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
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,…
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is The Mike Tice Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
77 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. 77 of the 182 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 MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PERFECT 33 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYT SD ↗
- Who funds GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds NTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AG AND CULINARY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ZACHARY HORTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds San Diego Nice Guys Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHULA VISTA PARKS & RECREATION ↗
- Who funds SCDRINC ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo National Monument Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Frontstream Global Fund · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Staley Charitable Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Midway Foundation Inc
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 Dorothea Tuney 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% 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.