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Human Dignity Foundation

The HUMAN DIGNITY FOUNDATION serves as a catalyst and convener of philanthropy focused on promoting responsible philanthropy, enhancing awareness of ways to give responsively and purposefully, and for improving the quality of life within the lgbtq community.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$101kHealth$72kPhilanthropy$48kCivil Rights$35kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$7kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $74,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,172 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,972 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH COUNTY LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
CHRISTIE'S PLACE$12,500
VIDA (SHINE CHARITY INC)$10,000
UC REGENTS$10,000
FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO$10,000
BEING ALIVE SAN DIEGO$10,000
LAMBDA ARCHIVES OF SAN DIEGO$6,700
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $61k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VIDA (SHINE CHARITY INC): $10k → 11%VIDA (SHINE CHARITY INC): $10k → 11%VIDA (SHINE CHARITY INC): $8k → 11%CHRISTIE'S PLACE: $13k → 11%CHRISTIE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%CHRISTIE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 8 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$198k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    North County LGBTQ Resource Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +103%
  • CP
    CHRISTIES PLACE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +39%
  • FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SD
    Special Delivery San Diegograduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +28%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Aids Assistance Program

The specific purpose of the AIDS Assistance Program is supplying nutritional support to low-income men, women, and children living with HIV/AIDS and other life threatening illnesses.

Health
2
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
3
Dignity Health Management Center

Providing medical, housing, and other support services to HIV positive people or those at risk for HIV.

Health
4
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
5
San Diego American Indian Health Center

The Mission of San Diego American Indian Health Center is to promote excellence in health care with respect to custom and tradition. Our goal is to reduce the significant health disparities San Diego's Urban American Indian and…

Health
6
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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7
Townspeople

The agency's purpose is to provide affordable rental housing to person's with low-incomes who are currently or imminently experiencing homelessness, living with hiv/aids, living with a disability, or other similar vulnerability. the agency…

Housing & Shelter
8
Harm Reduction Coalition of San Diego - Hrcsd On Point Inc

To spread awareness of the importance of harm reduction and to reduce stigma by educating,supporting,networking and providing harm-reduction services.

Human Services
9
North County Health Project Inc

TrueCare's mission is to improve the health status of our diverse communities by providing quality health care that is comprehensive, affordable and culturally sensitive. In 2024, TrueCare provided 367,941 visits, serving 68,023 patients.

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10
Tucson Interfaith Hivaids Network

Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network offers a compassionate interfaith response to HIV/AIDS, helping people with HIV to live well.

Health
11
Dap Health Inc

To enhance and promote the health and wellbeing of the community.

Health
12
Sunburst Projects

Sunburst Projects serves the needs of the HIV/AIDS community through compassionate care and services.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health Centers of San Diego Inc; the most unlike its peers is Special Delivery San Diego. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIES PLACE: $32,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIES PLACESHINE CHARITY INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesSHINE CHARITY INCTHE STEPPING STONE OF SAN DIEGO: $22,000 · OtherTHE STEPPING STONE OF SA…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSIT…Fraternity House Inc: $18,000 · OtherFraternity House IncFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC: $30,000 · HealthFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS…VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $12,000 · HealthVISTA COMMUNITY CLINI…Being Alive San Diego: $10,000 · HealthBeing Alive San DiegoJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $48,416 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FO…North County LGBTQ Resource Center: $35,000 · Civil RightsNorth County L…Special Delivery San Diego: $10,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Community ImprovementLambda Archives of San Diego: $6,700 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$60,500Other$60,000Health$52,000Philanthropy$48,416Civil Rights$35,000Education$10,000Community Improvement$7,000Arts & Culture$6,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $48,416 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County LGBTQ Resource Center: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTIES PLACE: $32,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEPPING STONE OF SAN DIEGO: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFraternity House Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeing Alive San Diego: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLambda Archives of San Diego: $6,700 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The San Diego Lesbian…The Cushman FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Leichtag FoundationBroadway Caresequity …Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationCalifornia Community …Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The San Diego FoundationCA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Human Dignity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Human Dignity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Human Dignity Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Human Dignity Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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