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Impact Cubed

To stimulate philanthropy and build social sector capacity by providing guidance to donors, facilitating funder consortia, and engaging community groups.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

7
’19
11
’20
5
’21
7
’22
5
’23
12
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHealth$408kPhilanthropy$303kInternational$140kCivil Rights$124kPublic Safety & Disaster$108kScience & Tech$100kReligion$83kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $748,841, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,013,006 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,264,165 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $682k
$54,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $248k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
PA
CT
CA
KY
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $460k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Jerusalem, Israel$460k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF EFFORTS IN ISRAEL

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. 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of Impact Cubed’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Impact Cubedlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 4 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
28

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $346k · revenue +27%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $267k · revenue +64%
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    3× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • IA
    I AM YOUR PROTECTOR INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · 80% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +121%
  • BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $54k · revenue +292%
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
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

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2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
University of Judaism Foundation
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9
American Jewish Committee

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…

Civil Rights
10
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

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…

Education
11
Dorot Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

Mfjc's purpose is the development of the social capital of the jewish people, its communal, cultural, and professional leadership, and the fostering of jewish connectedness globally, including the propagation of the hebrew language.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of San Diego County; 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.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $434,715 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT…UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $346,237 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $308,600 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $57,132 · Other+20 more: $287,132 · Other+20 moreI AM YOUR PROTECTOR INC: $1,100,000 · EducationI AM YOUR PROTECTOR INC+4 more: $60,600 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $251,134 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUN…MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $81,500 · PhilanthropyMERIT SPREAD …BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $54,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC …MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $39,500 · PhilanthropyMIGHTYCAUSE C…INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $26,000 · Philanthropy+2 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $267,032 · Health+1 more: $7,500 · HealthTIDES CENTER: $247,722 · Human ServicesTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $54,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $49,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $30,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,636 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $75,000 · Community ImprovementAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementFEEDING TEXAS: $11,997 · Community Improvement
Other$1,433,816Education$1,160,600Philanthropy$472,134Health$274,532Human Services$247,722International$144,636Community Improvement$131,997

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 budgetI AM YOUR PROTECTOR INC: $1,100,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $346,237 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $308,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $267,032 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $251,134 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $247,722 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $81,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $75,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF: $54,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $54,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $49,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $21,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOOTAGE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION DBA CHAMPIONS FOR HEALTH: $18,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $15,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetM2 THE INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENTIAL JEWISH EDUCATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKESHET: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN-4-KIDS: $13,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $11,997 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $6,636 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS SAN DIEGO CHAPTER: $6,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTY PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL: $6,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Adamah: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabonim Labor Zionist Youth Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAZON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Leichtag FoundationJewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…The Shimon Ben Joseph…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Fede…ImpactassetsincUpstart Bay AreaCharles and Lynn Schu…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationTides Center
Leichtag FoundationCA30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Impact Cubed funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impact Cubed. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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 47 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home