· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| Santa Sohia Academy School | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,215 |
| Revived Soldiers Ukraine | $5,000 |
| San Diego Rescue Mission | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Turning Point | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Church of St Luke | $1,500 |
| Catholic Charities | $1,500 |
| San Diego Zoo Foundation | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,023 |
| Catholic Comm Fdtn MN | $1,000 |
| Armed Services of YMCA | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
33 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 15 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNOAH HOMES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $121k · revenue +38%
- SDSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +12%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FBFOREVER BALBOA PARKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +250%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- YAYoung America's Foundationone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 111 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
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 NOAH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DYNAMO INC ↗
- Who funds Revived Soldiers Ukraine ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds NINJAS FIGHTING LYMPHEDEMA ↗
- Who funds Days For Girls International ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Garbaczewski Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Garbaczewski Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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