· Public charity
Karen Organization of San Diego
Our primary purpose is to provide social services, educational enhancement, opportunities for cultural preservation and community building for the Karen and other ethnic minority groups from Burma who reside in San Diego.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $376,819 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $417,819 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,000 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Women of East Africa Support Team | $93,320 |
| Southern Sudanese Community Center of San Diego | $61,500 |
| Teaching and Learning Collaborative | $48,000 |
| UC San Diego | $33,999 |
| Majdal Center | $33,000 |
| Somali Bautu Community of San Diego | $33,000 |
| Refugee Assistance Center | $31,000 |
| License to Freedom | $31,000 |
| OneOC | $12,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +78% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UWUnited Women of East Africa Support Team4× · 2021–2024 · $302k · revenue +143%
- SSSOUTHERN SUDANESE COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2021–2024 · $124k · revenue +225%
LICENSE TO FREEDOM4× · 2021–2024 · $113k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- IISLAHone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue -78%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANSone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -74%
- TQTHE QUARTERMAN & KELLER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +128%
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.
Amplifying Somali Voices & Building Communities
Somali Family Service, guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees and other underserved communities in San Diego through its programs that promote health, educational and economic success, and leadership development.
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Ethnic self sufficency and refugee empowerment
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Provide support and advocacy services in response to health, employment, housing, education, and other social services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refugee Assistance Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Islah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 United Women of East Africa Support Team ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SUDANESE COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY OF SAN ↗
- Who funds LICENSE TO FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HORN OF AFRICA COMMUNITY OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ISLAH ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds THE QUARTERMAN & KELLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Afghan Community Islamic Center INC ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
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: United Women of East Africa Support Team · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The California Endowment · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The California Wellness Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Karen Organization 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.
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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