· Private foundation
Hedwig S Johannsen Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Operation HOPE Vista | $100,000 |
| Community Resource Center | $50,000 |
| Frosted Faces Foundation | $10,395 |
| Brother Benno Foundation | $10,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Vista | $10,000 |
| Straight from the Heart | $10,000 |
| The Elizabeth Hospice | $10,000 |
| Veterans Association of North County | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +200%- OHOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +22%
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LCLA COSTA YOUTH ORGANIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +83% · 27% of their budget
- ICInterfaith Community Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +43%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +135%
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.
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…
Hospice of slo provides volunteer support, education, and counseling to those living with life threatening or terminal illness, their families, and the bereaved. our primary clientele are low to moderate income children, adults, families,…
North Beach Citizens meets the needs of our unhoused and extremely low-income neighbors with trust, integrity, and compassion. Through personalized, innovative programs, we help individuals facing poverty reclaim dignity, stability, and a…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
5cities homeless coalition (5chc) is transforming lives in san luis obispo county, california, from avila beach to nipomo. 5chc strengthens the community by mobilizing resources, fostering hope, and advocating for the homeless and those…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
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,…
To provide care for the terminally ill that helps these individuals live their lives as fully as possible.
To provide counseling, education, shelter and supportive services to low-income, homeless and mentally ill individuals and families.
To provide membership services, local level issue management, education, shared services, research, media support & consultation to northern california hospitals.
SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Association of North County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds LA COSTA YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE NORTH COAST ↗
- Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY ↗
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 · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Issa Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation · The Country Friends · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Walter J & Betty C Zable 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 Hedwig S Johannsen Trust 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.