· Private foundation
Issa Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE | $400,000 |
| ST ANTHONY ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER | $175,000 |
| LEAP TO SUCCESS | $75,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $70,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA | $70,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| NEW HAVEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $40,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
| ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK | $30,000 |
| OPERATION HOPE NORTH COUNTY | $25,000 |
| PALOMAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $23.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SFSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +8%
- NCNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $540k · revenue +151%
- LTLeap to Success6× · 2020–2025 · $510k · revenue +44% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- TITHE ISSA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $21M · 84% of their budget
- POPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
- USU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -77%
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 mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…
RTFH exists to reduce and end homelessness in San Diego, ensuring that if this situation does happen for anyone, it remains a rare, brief and non-recurring instance; not an outcome.
Founded in 1887, the center is the oldest children's nonprofit in the region accredited by the joint commission for its excellence in quality of care. the center provides a continuum of therapeutic & educational services to youth &…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Oasis and the most unlike its peers is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 74% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 100 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 THE ISSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Leap to Success ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Palomar College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds New Haven Youth and Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MOONLIGHT CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TASK FORCE ON LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds North County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MILITARY OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY TRADE TECH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds LIFE PERSPECTIVES ↗
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 · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · McCarthy Family Foundation Inc · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth
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 Issa Family Foundation 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.