· Private foundation
Garfield Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS | $40,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $28,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MOVEMENT FOR REFORM AND PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM | $10,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH | $10,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (CLAYMAN INS | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $5,575 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL) | $5,000 |
| MINDSMATTER | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO | $4,650 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION (UJF) | $3,800 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SAN MATEO COUNTY LIBRARIES (SMCL) | $2,500 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD | $1,490 |
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 (FY21–24, $63k) 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 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 +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACA COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS4× · 2021–2024 · $96k · revenue +42%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO3× · 2021–2024 · $61k · revenue +98%
- OGOLD GLOBE THEATRE2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SMSD MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2021 · $90k
- TATHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +13%
- HOHILLEL OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -10%
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.
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.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
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.
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
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…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SAN MATEO COUNTY LIBRARIES ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
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: The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Karney Flaster Family Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Garfield Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garfield Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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