How much did JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

skillslow-incomealleviateculturallydiverseaidnorth

2021

studentshealthyhelpsbreak cyclecatholictraumawarriors

2023

handtransitional livinginternational reliefchildrenfinancialseniorsinsecurity

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$116M

Total assets

Largest grants

THINK DIGNITY$6,000
OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY$6,000
SHERMAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER$6,000
WARNER SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCES BOARD$6,000
ICNA RELIEF$6,000
LIFE ACTS$6,000
FOOTHILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$6,000
FOUNDATION MATTHEW 633 INC$6,000
CHRISTIAN CREDIT COUNSELORS INC$6,000
SAN DIEGO CHRISTIAN CENTER INTERNATIONAL$6,000
FAITH CHAPEL$6,000
OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$6,000
LIVED EXPERIENCES$6,000
UPTOWN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER$6,000
HEAVEN'S WINDOWS$6,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK’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. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANKlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 45 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102

Total granted

$1.5M

$980k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%

+79%

Still filing today

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

HW
HEAVEN'S WINDOWS
3× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +52%
SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY MOUNT CARMEL
2× · 2020–2021 · $56k · revenue +107%
UF
UPTOWN FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
3× · 2020–2023 · $51k · revenue +18%

Funded once

HH
HEARTS & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER
one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -47% · 40% of their budget
SD
SPECIAL DELIVERY SAN DIEGO
one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -13%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +124%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

We See You Inc

We see you has a mission to see lives transformed among the homeless and addicted in san diego by offering sustainable pathways off of the streets.

Food & Nutrition

San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter

Regional Task Force On the Homeless

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.

Human Services

Urban Angels

Urban angels is designed to nourish and provide food for the homeless and hungry of san dieo, ca. urban angels provides feeding services every wednesday in collboration with the salvation army and is the primary food provider for residents…

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The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals... feeding san diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community…

Food & Nutrition

Interfaith Shelter Network of San Diego

The interfaith shelter network of san diego is a collaboration of religious, social services, and government entities arrayed to help homeless members of the san diego county community.

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San Diego Hunger Coalition

The san diego hunger coalition (sdhc) works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy. our vision is that everyone has access to 3 nutritious and…

Food & Nutrition

Dreams for Change Inc

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.

Human Services

Kind Hearts San Diego

Kind Hearts San Diego is a community-based social services organization that provides essential goods and services to newly arrived refugees and immigrants resettled in San Diego County. Their mission is to ease newcomers into the process…

Human Services

Community Housing Works

Community housingworks helps people living on low wages and fixed incomes move up in the world, in san diego and across california, by building and owning stable affordable apartment homes and providing onsite services and opportunities…

Housing & Shelter

Voice of San Diego

Investigative journalism for a better san diego.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Smart Food Market Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%1/164

the rest of the field

13%

1,825/14,597

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.

06the grantee network

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/92

Grantees still filing

76/92

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,408,500Human Services$467,000Food & Nutrition$231,000Religion$163,000Education$137,000Employment$67,000Community Improvement$65,000

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.

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.

The San Diego FoundationCA77.6× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Feeding San Diego · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Lucky Duck Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties

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 organisation JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEARTS & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911979153 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEARTS & HANDS WORKING TOGETHER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 40% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank?

Find your warmest path to Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank?

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JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

92 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank?

More from the funding graph