· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA DE AMPARO | $60,000 |
| MOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC | $60,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -28% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forte for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forte for Children. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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