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General Atomics Sciences Education Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chapter One NFP | $10,000 |
| San Diego Childrens Discovery Museum | $10,000 |
| Air and Space Force Association | $10,000 |
| Classics 4 Kids | $5,000 |
| North County Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego | $5,000 |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $5,000 |
| San Diego Unified School District Rowan Elementary | $5,000 |
| Olivewood Gardens | $5,000 |
| North County Education Foundation | $5,000 |
| San Diego Fleet Week Foundation | $5,000 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum | $5,000 |
| Greater Than Tech | $5,000 |
| Expanding Your Horizons of San Diego | $4,000 |
| The Links Foundation | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 38 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- SSSCIENCE SPARK2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +62%
- EIELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE3× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +27%
- GSGREATER SAN DIEGO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR INC4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CACivil Air Patrol San Diego Squadron 144one grant, 2021 · $20k
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Greather San Diegoone grant, 2023 · $15k
- BGBoys Girls Clubs of Oceansideone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Children's Discovery Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Link Foundation. 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 18 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 221 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SCIENCE SPARK ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CHAPTER ONE NFP ↗
- Who funds GREATER SAN DIEGO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds North County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIOCOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER THAN TECH ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE DELIVERED ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds San Diego Fleet Week Foundation ↗
- Who funds KID SPARK EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS RISING ↗
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 San Diego Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · The Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · McCarthy Family Foundation Inc · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley 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 General Atomics Sciences Education Foundation 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.
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
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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