· Private foundation
Kearns Saldinger 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Diego Food Bank | $10,500 |
| Stanford University | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Father Joe's Village | $7,474 |
| San Diego Zoo | $5,000 |
| Children's National Research Instit | $5,000 |
| The Old Globe | $5,000 |
| Love on Your Back | $2,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,066 |
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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Kearns Saldinger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 64%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KAKIDS AT RISK ACTION2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
- KKARA3× · 2018–2020 · $14k · revenue +52%
- WWWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BSBeverly Shores Elementary Schoolone grant, 2017 · $12k
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%- GLGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +88%
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.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
The mission of family service agency is to strengthen and advocate for families and individuals of all ages and diversities, helping to create and preserve a healthy community.
Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 39 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 KIDS AT RISK ACTION ↗
- Who funds KARA ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIRY'S LIST ↗
- Who funds LOVE ON YOUR BACK ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sumter Schools Enhancement Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA 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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kearns Saldinger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kearns Saldinger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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