· Private foundation
Lee S Monroe Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mountain Ways Foundation | $40,000 |
| Support the Enlisted Project STEP | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Point Blue Conservation Science | $15,000 |
| Feeding San Diego | $15,000 |
| Shelter To Soldier | $15,000 |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $10,000 |
| Living Coast Discovery | $10,000 |
| PHLS Assoc Alumni | $10,000 |
| Groundswell Community Project | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- STSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +297%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +29%
- STSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +93%
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +134%
- OMONE MORE WAVE SURF CORPgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +45%
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.
The san diego veterans coalition (sdvc) is a catalyst that inspires collaboration and cooperation among service partners to deliver premier support for veterans in the san diego region.during 2023 the san diego veterans coalition (sdvc)…
To provide canine-assisted support to organizations, as well as kids withspecial needs, people with disabilities, wounded warriors and veterans withptsd through unique initiatives utilizing service, therapy and emotionalsupport dogs to…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
Zero8hundred's mission is to offer compassionate, evidence-based support to service members and their families, helping them navigate the unique challenges of transitioning from active duty to civilian life through a peer-based social work…
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
The northcoast marine mammal centers (nmmc) mission is to promote the long-term health of marine mammals along approximately two hundred miles of remote coastline in humboldt and del norte counties in northern california. the nmmc does…
Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders
To inspire ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, education, and research.
Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter to Soldier Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ephraim Fire - Rescue Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MORE WAVE SURF CORP ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM FIRE - RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Cushman Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Balmes Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Lee S Monroe Foundation 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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