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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of IRVING & FRANCINE SUKNOW FOUNDATION CO-TRUSTEES HENRY FADER & LYNDA GORDON’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Irving & Francine Suknow Foundation Co-Trustees Henry Fader & Lynda Gordon 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.
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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