· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
To collaborate with individuals and organizations, and leverage philanthropic capital for positive impact.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 774 grants below total $148,054,675 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,315,440 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,260,765 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k132 grants · $875k
- $10k–50k372 grants · $7.5M
- $50k–250k190 grants · $19M
- $250k+80 grants · $120M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $31,034,378 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $10,804,451 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $8,433,856 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $5,036,000 |
| SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $4,761,102 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION | $4,543,619 |
| SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $3,411,809 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,528,323 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO | $2,205,366 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $2,056,986 |
| DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST | $2,000,000 |
| LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS | $1,542,140 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $1,444,496 |
| MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA | $1,400,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $1,387,218 |
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 (FY17–25, $49.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 line in 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 +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
975 repeat relationships — 539 still active in FY2025, 436 since wound down; 179 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M 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
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $140M · revenue +38% · 50% of their budget
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $131M · revenue +78%
Cornell University8× · 2017–2025 · $36M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HTHADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $1.9M
- FAFINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- JFJFS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue -65% · 73% of their budget
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 matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is The High Frontier. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
1669 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1669 of the 1,924 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds BUILDING 178 PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds MUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE IV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE SD INC ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The San Diego 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 Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Cadena Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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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