· Private foundation
Irving & Francine Suknow Foundation Co-Trustees Henry Fader & Lynda Gordon
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
- $250k+1 grant · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION MOORES CANCER CENTER | $460,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $65,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| PADRES PEDAL THE CAUSE | $3,500 |
| SEACREST FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PHASE ONE FOUNDATION - ROAD TO CURING CANCER | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $66k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 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
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +78%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +374%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES7× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CSCATHOLIC SECONDARY EDUCATION- DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CDCasa De Amparograduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +43%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
To support the charitable mission of jewish community foundation of san diego, a ca nonprofit public benefit corporation, by facilitating charitable activities of the type carried on by jewish family service of san diego, a ca nonprofit…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
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…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to support the charitable mission, purposes, and activities of jewish family service of san diego.
Hebrew free loan of san diego fosters financial stability and opportunity among the jewish community of san diego county by providing access to affordable interest free loans with jewish values of compassion, kindness, and flexibility.…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
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 21 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 UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
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 · Sempra Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irving & Francine Suknow Foundation Co-Trustees Henry Fader & Lynda Gordon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving & Francine Suknow Foundation Co-Trustees Henry Fader & Lynda Gordon. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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