· Community foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
To collaborate with individuals and organizations, and leverage philanthropic capital for positive impact.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
1669 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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