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John Garbaczewski 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.

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
61%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,500
Organizations funded a year
21 to 40
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$932k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 61% of the organizations John Garbaczewski Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving32$54k47%
FY202428$35k61%
FY202324$51k42%
FY202240$69k73%
FY202121$203k57%
FY202026$26kn/a
73% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$138kRecreation & Sports$38kReligion$36kHousing & Shelter$26kHealth$22kInternational$13kYouth Development$11kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
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WY
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CA
CO
NE
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VA
MD
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DC
TX
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John Garbaczewski Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNoah Homes Inc: $120,913 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetForever Balboa Park: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSan Diego Rescue Mission Inc: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnights of Columbus Charities Inc: $9,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Dynamo Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRevived Soldiers Ukraine: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Vincent de Paul Village Inc: $4,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNinjas Fighting Lymphedema: $2,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetDays For Girls International: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of the Immaculate Heart: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetServing Seniors: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of San Marcos: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget40 Days for Life: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLucky Duck Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuilts for Kids Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Officers Relief Fund Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc: $135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life Action Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Vietnam War Museum Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Sempra FoundationCA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About John Garbaczewski Family Foundation

How much does John Garbaczewski Family Foundation give?
John Garbaczewski Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $54,082 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does John Garbaczewski Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Religion (8%).
Who are John Garbaczewski Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Noah Homes Inc ($121k), Forever Balboa Park ($35k), San Diego Rescue Mission Inc ($22k).
Does John Garbaczewski Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Garbaczewski Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John Garbaczewski Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation.
Where is John Garbaczewski Family Foundation based?
John Garbaczewski Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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