· Public charity
Feeding San Diego
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $45,572 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $67,155,310 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,109,738 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC | $45,572 |
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 (FY18–24, $116k) 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 +57% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- SHSTEPPING HIGHER INC4× · 2018–2021 · $127k · revenue +57% · 48% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2018–2021 · $89k · revenue +368%
- SDSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $82k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- LCLIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2022 · $173k
- TPTricity Pantryone grant, 2022 · $109k · 66% of their budget
- IAI Am My Brothers Keeper Cdcone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -27% · 82% of their budget
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.
Feeding the homeless population in san d
Urban angels is designed to nourish and provide food for the homeless and hungry of san dieo, ca. urban angels provides feeding services every wednesday in collboration with the salvation army and is the primary food provider for residents…
Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…
Focused on bringing holiday meals full of hope to families in need in the san diego area.
Emergency food and shelter program servicing approx 5,500 people in the 29 Palms area. Hours of operation are: mom-fri 9:30 to 11:30, 2nd and 4th Wed of each month 17:00 to 18:30, and 1st Sat each month 9:30 to 18:30.
To assist the needy in San Diego CA
Distribute food to nonprofit agencies
Emergency food services provided to families in need.
Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.
To provide assistance and aid to the homeless in downtown san diego
Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.
Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brother Benno Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Third Avenue Charitable Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 47 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 IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STEPPING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds Tricity Pantry ↗
- Who funds I Am My Brothers Keeper Cdc ↗
- Who funds The Community Food Connection ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds Third Avenue Charitable Organization ↗
- Who funds MCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN'S WINDOWS ↗
- Who funds LIVED EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds FALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SANTEE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds North County LGBTQ Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE STUDENT RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 11 ↗
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: Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation
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 Feeding San Diego 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.
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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