· Private foundation
French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $737k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES | $25,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $23,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $20,000 |
| LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| A STEP BEYOND | $20,000 |
| SAN DIEGO CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSUEM | $20,000 |
| THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OUTDOOR OUTREACH | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $20,000 |
| SAN DIEGO VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM INC | $20,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $706k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
89 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 13 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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
- SHSharp Healthcare Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +34%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +29%
- SDSAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NUNATIONAL UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +42%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SANone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…
The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.
To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is Wheelchair Dancers 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 38 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 177 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 Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds North County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds La Jolla Historical Society ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Masserini Maurice J Tua
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 French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua 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.