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Health Quest Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$438kEducation$379kEnvironment$184kYouth Development$153kRecreation & Sports$124kInternational$44kHuman Services$28kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$1,035
Median grant
5
States reached
$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$25,000
LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$23,000
SAN DIEGO RIVER PARKS FOUNDATION$23,000
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$18,885
VASCULAR CURES$7,000
KIMERA ORPHANAGE$7,000
INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOC$2,625
LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,400
OUTDOOR OUTREACH$1,200
YMCA - DAN MCKINNEY FAMILY$1,042
CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION$1,035
SAN DIEGO MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATI$1,030
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB$500
GUTTMACHER$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $500 → 14%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $103 → 21%PARADOX SPORTS: $5k → 12%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $1k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $3k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETE FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETE FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%YMCA of San Diego County: $1k → 11%YMCA of San Diego County: $1k → 11%YMCA of San Diego: $3k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 35 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
59

Total granted

$1.2M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+46%

Still filing today

80%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LJ
    LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +43%
  • YF
    YOSEMITE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +50%
  • TS
    The San Diego River Park Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • AB
    ACCELERATE BRAIN CANCER CURE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -35%
  • TR
    THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
10
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
11
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kimera Orphanage. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,908

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $274,345 · OtherLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $60,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES — $43,345 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURESCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION — $26,950 · Other+66 more — $219,411 · Other+66 moreYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $176,800 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATIONThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $65,000 · Recreation & SportsThe San Diego River P…SAN DIEGO MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION — $11,560 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $8,068 · Recreation & SportsGENETIC ALLIANCE INC — $231,000 · HealthGENETIC ALLIANCE INCCUREBOUND — $11,155 · Health+5 more — $7,845 · HealthTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $56,510 · EducationTHE CAMPA…KIMERA ORPHANAGE — $42,500 · EducationKIMERA OR…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $12,300 · EducationUC SAN DI…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $4,000 · Education+2 more — $362 · EducationOUTDOOR OUTREACH — $36,200 · Youth DevelopmentJESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentTransforming Youth Outdoors Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentARTS BRIDGE INC — $5,150 · Youth DevelopmentRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $37,300 · PhilanthropyThe Trauma Foundation — $22,200 · Philanthropy+2 more — $2,920 · PhilanthropyMIRACLE BABIES — $8,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesPARADOX SPORTS — $4,750 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $4,596 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $2,030 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $1,000 · Human Services+3 more — $953 · Human Services
Other$624,251Recreation & Sports$261,428Health$250,000Education$115,672Youth Development$64,350Philanthropy$62,420Human Services$26,329

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $274,345 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGENETIC ALLIANCE INC — $231,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $176,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $65,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $56,510 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES — $43,345 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKIMERA ORPHANAGE — $42,500 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $37,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH — $36,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trauma Foundation — $22,200 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetACCELERATE BRAIN CANCER CURE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC — $13,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSan Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $12,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION — $11,560 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCUREBOUND — $11,155 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTransforming Youth Outdoors Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $8,068 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES — $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $5,510 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRON KORNBLUT MEMORIAL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARADOX SPORTS — $4,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $4,596 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $4,299 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $2,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION — $1,920 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDES RIVER PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,236 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDel Mar Solana Beach Rotary Club — $1,100 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCLIMBING FOR CHANGE INC — $1,039 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $1,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL — $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $777 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Price Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…Marin Community Found…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Nordson Corporati…Kerr Family FoundationSamuel I & John Henry…The Parker Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA35.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Kerr Family Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Parker 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 Health Quest 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Genetic Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines