· Private foundation
Helmut Kiffmann Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Helmut Kiffmann Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Diego Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Helmut Kiffmann Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| URBAN RESTORATION COUNSELING CENTER | $5,000 |
| EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP | $5,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| END OF LIFE CHOICES | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGUITO UNITED METHODIST CHURC | $3,000 |
| ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.7M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
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.
Feeding the homeless population in san d
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…
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
Provide shelter and court advocacy for victims of domestic violence.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 Sister League of San Diego Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds Holly House for Kids ↗
- Who funds ProduceGood ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helmut Kiffmann Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helmut Kiffmann Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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