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Georges & Germaine Fusenot Charity Foundation Inc

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.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$328kHuman Services$283kScience & Tech$242kArts & Culture$230kRecreation & Sports$218kAnimals$217kHealth$214kHousing & Shelter$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k56 grants · $220k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER$25,000
SAN DIEGO AIR SPACE MUSEUM$20,000
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BARBERS FOR BAJA FOUNDATION$8,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$8,000
YWCA$8,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,000
UCSD MEDICAL SCHOOL FREE CLINIC$6,000
ISIGHT MISSIONS$6,000
THRIVE WELLNESS COLLECTIVE$6,000
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$5,000
SHEPHERDS PAW ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $5k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $5k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $5k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $5k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $3k → 10%FAMILY BUILDING FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $10k → 11%FAMILY BUILDING FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $10k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $5k → 11%WAY FINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%WAY FINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%WAY FINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%WAY FINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%WAY FINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $8k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $8k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $4k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $4k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $8k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $8k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5k → 11%THE ROSIE NETWORK: $5k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $5k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $5k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $3k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $3k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $3k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $3k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $3k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 98 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

98 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
33

Total granted

$2.2M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

62%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PB
    PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +110%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +28%
  • LJ
    LA JOLLA YOUTH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +34% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • XP
    X PRIZE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +96%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
4
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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5
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
6
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
7
California Walks

Statewide voice for pedestrian safety and healthy, walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities. California Walks partners with state agencies, community-based organizations and residents.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
9
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
10
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
11
Urban Street Angels Inc

Founded in 2012, urban street angels is a san diego native 501(c)3 attentive to supporting homeless youth through supportive housing, peer support, mentorship, mental health counseling, and job training initiatives, in order to develop a…

Religion
12
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Opera Association; the most unlike its peers is Evans School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 138 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
55/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO AIR SPACE MUSEUM: $174,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO AIR SPACE MUSEUMUCLA FAMILY RESILIENCE CENTER: $75,000 · OtherLA JOLLA YOUTH INC: $71,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $56,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $51,000 · Other+85 more: $1,022,500 · Other+85 moreLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $64,000 · EducationLOYOLA MAR…OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL…LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA: $27,000 · EducationLIBRARY AS…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationUC SAN DIE…CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $23,000 · EducationCRISTO REY…Barbers For Baja Foundation: $18,000 · EducationBarbers Fo…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $16,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON …+1 more: $7,000 · EducationInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $38,000 · Human ServicesInternati…ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $34,500 · Human ServicesALEXANDRI…YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $31,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF S…WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR F…GENERATEHOPE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGENERATEH…Wayfinder Family Services: $22,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder…LAURA'S HOUSE: $15,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S H…+3 more: $16,500 · Human Services+3 moreISIGHT MISSIONS INC: $34,500 · HealthOPERATION SURF: $29,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $27,000 · HealthNINE GIRLS ASK FOR A CURE FOR OVARIAN CANCER: $26,500 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $25,000 · HealthThrive Wellness Collective: $18,500 · HealthWESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC: $15,500 · HealthPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $97,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSan Diego Opera Association: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSACRAPROFANA INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $22,000 · Arts & CultureZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $85,500 · AnimalsCOASTAL K9 GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE: $19,000 · AnimalsPets In Need: $15,000 · AnimalsSAVING HORSES INC: $11,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $11,000 · AnimalsI Stand With My Pack Inc: $10,500 · Animals+1 more: $3,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $37,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,449,500Education$219,000Human Services$212,000Health$176,000Arts & Culture$167,000Animals$155,000Civil Rights$67,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $97,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $85,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA YOUTH INC: $71,000 over 9y, 100% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSURF LIFESAVINGS del SUR: $43,000 over 9y, 68% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $38,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetISIGHT MISSIONS INC: $34,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $34,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $31,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS: $30,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SURF: $29,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA: $27,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNINE GIRLS ASK FOR A CURE FOR OVARIAN CANCER: $26,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL K9 GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE: $19,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThrive Wellness Collective: $18,500 over 4y, 47% of budgetInner City Law Center: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBarbers For Baja Foundation: $18,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetONE MORE WAVE SURF CORP: $18,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPets In Need: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAS PATRONAS: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC: $11,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDoors of Change: $10,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetI Stand With My Pack Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds SURF LIFESAVINGS del SUR ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISIGHT MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
  • Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds NINE GIRLS ASK FOR A CURE FOR OVARIAN CANCER ↗
  • Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds GENERATEHOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT 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.

The San Diego FoundationCA44.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Georges & Germaine Fusenot Charity Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Georges & Germaine Fusenot Charity Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 138 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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