California · Public charity
Impact Cubed
To stimulate philanthropy and build social sector capacity by providing guidance to donors, facilitating funder consortia, and engaging community groups. Efforts will be primarily dedicated to enhancing impact, building talent, and nurturing equity in jewish
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Impact Cubed’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of San Diego County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Impact Cubed named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $749k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $749k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $54,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $230,360
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Impact Cubed funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $749k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $426k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $1.3M | 86% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $230k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $196k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Am Your Protector Inc | $1,100,000 | 1 | 80% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $434,715 | 4 | n/a |
| University of San Diego | $346,237 | 3 | 0% |
| California State University San Marcos Foundation | $267,032 | 2 | 2% |
| Merit Spread Foundation Inc | $81,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Community Stewardship | $75,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Regents of the University of California | $57,132 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Friends of the Association for the Advancement Of | $54,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice | $54,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $49,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Impact Cubed supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Leichtag Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Upstart Bay Area · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Tides Center
How this is measured
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How do I get to Impact Cubed?
Find your warmest path to Impact Cubed 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.
About Impact Cubed
- How much does Impact Cubed give?
- Impact Cubed reported 12 itemized grants totaling $748,841, out of $2,013,006 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Impact Cubed fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (13%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Impact Cubed's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: I Am Your Protector Inc ($1.1M), Regents of the University of California at San Diego ($435k), University of San Diego ($346k).
- Does Impact Cubed fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Cubed?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leichtag Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation.
- Where is Impact Cubed based?
- Impact Cubed is based in CA.
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