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Girard 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $692k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSD FOUNDATION | $558,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO INC | $250,000 |
| TRANSCEND INC | $250,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $186,712 |
| CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| DIGITAL PROMISE | $90,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SCIENCE ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC | $70,000 |
| PROJECT NEXT | $65,000 |
| ELEVATE SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $50,000 |
| VOICE OF SAN DIEGO | $42,000 |
| URBAN DISCOVERY ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $35,000 |
| EJE ACADEMIES | $31,825 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) 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 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +103%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC6× · 2018–2025 · $675k · revenue +31%
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- TETHRIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
- BVBAY VISTA METHODIST HEIGHTS-3C4SD CREATING CODE CAREERS FOR SAN DIEGANS INCone grant, 2021 · $190k
- NSNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL INITIATIVEone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -4%
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.
Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.
Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.
San diego french-american school offers an exceptional bilingual education within a vibrant international community, preparing students to become confident, responsible and engaged global citizens.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ck-12 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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
144 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. 144 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 YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSCEND INC ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds EJE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds North County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THRIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THRIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds HARRIET TUBMAN VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HELIX CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
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 · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 Girard 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.
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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