· Private foundation
L Robert & Patricia Payne Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of L ROBERT & PATRICIA PAYNE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $527k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART | $75,000 |
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $62,400 |
| OPERA NEO | $60,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $48,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $40,700 |
| OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER | $33,667 |
| CAMARADA | $30,000 |
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGE | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $25,000 |
| BUDO ACCELERATOR | $25,000 |
| ENNEAGRAM PRISON PROJECTS | $19,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- ONOpera Neo6× · 2019–2024 · $255k · revenue +220%
- NCNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $184k · revenue +151%
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SFSEATTLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $200k
- FBFOREVER BALBOA PARKgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +76%
- SSCRIPPSone grant, 2021 · $35k
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.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
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.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…
To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Intl Understanding. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 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. 69 of the 162 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 Coronado Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Opera Neo ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BACH COLLEGIUM SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CAMARADA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUDO ACCELERATOR INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds FREE TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Burnham Foundation · Allan and Lyndsey Arendsee Family Foundation
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 L Robert & Patricia Payne Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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