· Private foundation
Helmut Kiffmann Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $1,010,000 |
| YMCA | $262,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $50,000 |
| DOORS OF CHANGE | $28,000 |
| ST PAULS SENIOR SERVICES | $25,000 |
| COMPUTERS FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN MOLDOVAN JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| END OF LIFE CHOICES | $5,000 |
| URBAN RESTORATION COUNSELING CENTER | $5,000 |
| EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP | $5,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGUITO UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $3,000 |
| ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +110%- DODoors of Change5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +2%
- SOSEEDS OF HOPE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SFSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +8%
- CCCENTURY CLUBone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GRGIRLS RISINGone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +8%
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.
Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
Feeding the homeless population in san d
With assistance of volunteers from the community and faith groups, the organization works to assist homeless children and their families to achieve sustainable independence, while offering hope, compassion, and preserving individual…
To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.
San diego hunger coalition works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Hope for San Diego raises awareness, engages volunteers and provides financial and other tangible resources to organizations serving the poor and marginalized in the greater San Diego area.
Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…
The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…
Provide shelter and court advocacy for victims of domestic violence.
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Urban Restoration Counselling. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 33 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 Doors of Change ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS RISING ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY DAY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Urban Restoration Counselling ↗
- Who funds Holly House for Kids ↗
- Who funds Sister League of San Diego Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ProduceGood ↗
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 · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Country Friends · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Bravo Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family 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 Helmut Kiffmann Family 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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