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Guild Giving Foundation
Opening doors to new opportunities for the communities in which we serve by supporting financial literacy and delivering on our commitment to provide shelter.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $833,029 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $969,907 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $136,878 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $566k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VENTURES CORP INC | $566,209 |
| HOME START INC | $100,000 |
| URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $100,000 |
| MBA OPEN DOORS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VALLEY HOUSING COALITIONINC | $16,820 |
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 (FY19–22, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Guild Giving Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 46% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +110% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $633k 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
- HSHOME START INC5× · 2018–2024 · $510k · revenue +110%
- UCURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY4× · 2017–2024 · $368k · revenue +71%
- MSMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT3× · 2017–2019 · $268k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -30%
- UCURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHARTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +64%
- TAThird Avenue Charitable Organizationone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -54%
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.
In collaboration with our partners, we provide dignified, equitable and consistent access to nutritious food, creating a foundation for community health.
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Cache County Community 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 32 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 58 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 COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHARTER ↗
- Who funds Third Avenue Charitable Organization ↗
- Who funds INFINITE HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forward Assist ↗
- Who funds VETERANS SPORTSMAN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Auto-Tek Workforce Development ↗
- Who funds Proud Ground ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Camp Cole Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN FALLS OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE PROVIDERS OF SAN DIEGO INC DBA HOMEAID SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOU ↗
- Who funds ABILITY360 INC ↗
- Who funds GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds REMEMBERING AMERICA'S HEROES ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Wells Fargo Foundation · Magic Valley Festival of Giving Inc · Carmax Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Oregon Community Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Guild Giving 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Proud Ground — 11% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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