· Public charity
Forte for Children
To improve the quality of life for disadvantaged children in southern california and the communities in which we do business.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA | $60,000 |
| CASA DE AMPARO | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD | $60,000 |
| MOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $561k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $562k · revenue +346%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD8× · 2017–2024 · $539k · revenue +23%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS8× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- SFSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -28%
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.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
The club's mission is to enable all young people, specially those who need it most, to reach their potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To ensure that all children and youth, especially those who need us most, are offered opportunities to realize their full potential as responsible, caring, and productive citizens of a richly diverse world.
To operate a boys and girls club facility and after-school and summer camp programs for all area children regardless of ability to pay in the Five Cities area of San Luis Obispo County.
The club provides a safe environment for children in the santa barbara area to develop self-esteem, values and skills.
To provide opportunities for youth to learn and succeed.
Boys and girls clubs provide a safe place for youth to develop character, leadership, education, career guidance, health, art, sports and fitness while becoming responsible and caring citizens.
The mission of the club is to inspire and enable youth to achieve academic success, build good character and responsible citizenship, and make healthy lifestyle choices.
To promote health, social, educational, vocational, and character development of boys and girls through group activities, sports, and other programs.
To enable all young people, especially those who need it the most to reach their full potential as productive and responsible citizens. the organization achieves its mission through educational programs, enrichment activities and organized…
The mission of the Club is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe has been a cornerstone of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Vista Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sound Start a Sound United Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds MOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND START A SOUND UNITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
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: Issa Family Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · David C Copley Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Sempra Foundation · Good360 · McCarthy Family 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 Forte for Children 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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