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Karen Organization of San Diego
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.
$418k
Granted FY2024
9
Grants
1
Communities
$93k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Human Services$574kRecreation & Sports$124kInternational$24kCivil Rights$18kArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$12kOther$483k
02FY2024 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$33,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$489k
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
- License to Freedom$31,000
- Refugee Assistance Center$31,000
- OneOC$12,000
02The need
03
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.
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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $574k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 11 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +530% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
4
Total granted
$1.2M
$77k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+530%
+31%
Still filing today
55%
75%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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 +530%
- SSSouthern Sudanese Community Center of San Diego4× · 2021–2024 · $124k · revenue +2140%
License to Freedom4× · 2021–2024 · $113k · revenue +932%
Funded once
- IRIslah Reparations Projectone grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue -72%
- PFPartnership for the Advancement of New Americansgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +198%
- IRIslah Reparations Projectgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Somali Family Service of San Diego
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.
Human Services
2
Afghan Refugee Relief
We partner closely with community organizations, local nonprofits, resettlement agencies, religious institutions and passionate volunteers focused on helping refugees, asylum-seekers and humanitarian parolees resettle in Southern…
Philanthropy
3
Kind Hearts San Diego
Kind Hearts San Diego is a community-based social services organization that provides essential goods and services to newly arrived refugees and immigrants resettled in San Diego County. Their mission is to ease newcomers into the process…
Human Services
4
Somali American Council of Oregon
To support with basics of life and protect their civil rights of the one of the poorest, linguistically challenged and underserved or in many cases not served community in Oregon. We also focus on uplifting and supporting this mostly…
International
5
Episcopal Refugee Network of San Diego
The mission of RefugeeNet is to equip San Diego s refugee families to thrive and become self-reliant and contributing citizens
Human Services
6
Somali American Community
To advocate & educate Somali-American community about the importance particpation in educational programs, civic engagement, schools etc.
Human Services
7
The 5ive Pillars Organization
The 5ive Pillars Organization is an Afghan-American led organization that aids in the resettlement of newcomer migrants in Northern California. In conjunction with resettlement organizations, city/county agencies, and other partners, we…
Human Services
8
Somali Bantu Association of America
SBAOA provides education, cultural, & life skills training programs in an effort to promote self-sufficiency within & among individuals & families comprising not only the Somali Bantu community, but all refugees, immigrants & low-income…
Human Services
9
Southern California Immigration Project
Southern CaliorniaImmigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono and low bono legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations.
International
10
Humanitarian African Relief Organization
Emergency relief services
International
11
Karen Organization of San Diego
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.
Arts & Culture
12
Horn of Africa Services
Provide support and advocacy services in response to health, employment, housing, education, and other social needs for East Africa refugees and immigrants from Djibouti , Ethiopia, Somalia , Eritrea and Sudan living in greater Seattle area
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somali Bantu Community of San 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.
04the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$574,320Other$483,499Recreation & Sports$123,500International$24,000Civil Rights$18,000Arts & Culture$15,000Philanthropy$12,000
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 Bautu Community of San Diego ↗
- Who funds License to Freedom ↗
- Who funds Majdal Center ↗
- Who funds Haitian Bridge Alliance ↗
- Who funds Horn of Africa Community ↗
- Who funds Islah Reparations Project ↗
- Who funds Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans ↗
- Who funds Islah Reparations Project ↗
- Who funds Afghan Community Islamic Center ↗
- 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.
United Women of East Africa Support TeamCA24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Women of East Africa Support Team · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The San Diego Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · Tides Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Southern Sudanese Community Center of San Diego.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 22.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 330693051 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Southern Sudanese Community Center of San Diego, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Karen Organization of San Diego through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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