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Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank
The JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $246,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $308,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE | $6,000 |
| WARNER SPRINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCES BOARD | $6,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA-SAN DIEGO | $6,000 |
| RAW RUTH ANOINTED WORLD MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| EL CAJON SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| HEAVEN'S WINDOWS | $6,000 |
| SHELTER VALLEY CITIZENS CORPORATION | $6,000 |
| EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER | $6,000 |
| FOOTHILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| LIVED EXPERIENCES | $6,000 |
| FAITH CHAPEL | $6,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CA | $6,000 |
| MAAC COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,000 |
| CHOLLAS VIEW UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| LIFE ACTS | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $467k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
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.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- HWHEAVEN'S WINDOWS3× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +39%
- SVSt Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of San Diego2× · 2020–2021 · $56k · revenue +107%
- HAHEARTS AND HANDS WORKING TOGETHER2× · 2021–2023 · $51k · revenue +48% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- SDSpecial Delivery San Diegoone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -27%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INCone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +13%- OPOPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Feeding the homeless population in san d
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…
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.
To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.
To provide meals and shelter to the working poor and homeless in North San Diego County.
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…
The specific purpose of Housing Help of San Diego (HHOSD) is to provide supportive services and tailored solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing.
Emergency food and shelter program servicing approx 5,500 people in the 29 Palms area. Hours of operation are: mom-fri 9:30 to 11:30, 2nd and 4th Wed of each month 17:00 to 18:30, and 1st Sat each month 9:30 to 18:30.
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…
Christian Outreach in Action (COA) is a non-denominational non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of homeless and impoverished individuals in Long Beach and surrounding areas so they may reach and sustain…
San diego hunger coalition works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy.
Our mission is to provide nutritional meal and food support, food equity programming to local communities and provide infant needs to eradicate infant mortality and abuse rates in LA County and City.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is North County Sober Living. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 162 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 HEAVEN'S WINDOWS ↗
- Who funds St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of San Diego ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS WORKING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Uptown Faith Community Service ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Somali Bantu Association of America ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds SANTEE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PAVING GREAT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds FALLBROOK FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LA MAESTRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Community Food Connection ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 11 ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Buckheart Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ITS ALL ABOUT THE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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 · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Feeding San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Lucky Duck Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation
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 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.
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.