· Public charity
Impact Cubed
To stimulate philanthropy and build social sector capacity by providing guidance to donors, facilitating funder consortia, and engaging community groups.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $748,841 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,013,006 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,264,165 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $682k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION | $230,360 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $158,849 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION | $81,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $57,132 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADV OF COMM CENTERS IN ISRAE | $54,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY | $20,000 |
| M2 INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| GREEN-4-KIDS | $13,500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONASL | $6,500 |
| NORTH COUNTY PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.3M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF EFFORTS IN ISRAEL
Stated purpose: UKRAINE RELIEF EFFORTS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of Impact Cubed’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO3× · 2022–2024 · $346k · revenue +27%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $267k · revenue +64%
- AFAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ2× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- IAI AM YOUR PROTECTOR INCone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · 80% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +121%
BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $54k · revenue +292%
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association of Fundraising Professionals San Diego Chapter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 44 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 I AM YOUR PROTECTOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY ↗
- Who funds FOOTAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION DBA CHAMPIONS FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds M2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KESHET ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds GREEN-4-KIDS ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds PALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS SAN DIEGO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
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: 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
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 Impact Cubed 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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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.