· Private foundation
Leo a & Minta L Brisco Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS SLO | $15,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY HISTORIAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| FIVE CITIES CHRISTIAN WOMEN | $15,000 |
| THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SLO CO | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST VETERANS MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| RANCHO NIPOMO DANA ADOBE | $10,000 |
| SLO FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ARROYO GRANDE SPORTSMAN'S CLUB | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PRICE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS OF AG FFA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 136 | $10,000 |
| PORT SAN LUIS LIGHT HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| COLAB FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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 +17% since the first grant, against -48% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 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 FY2025, 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
- FCFIVE CITIES CHRISTIAN WOMEN9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +29%
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 1366× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%
- PLPacific Legal Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST-LATTER DAY Sone grant, 2021 · $20k
- AGARROYO GRANDE IN BLOOM INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -48%
- YLYOUTH LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Post protects open space on the peninsula and in the south bay for the benefit of all. post is creating a network of protected lands where people and nature connect and thrive. these lands are preserved forever so present and future…
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
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…
The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…
The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County and the most unlike its peers is Five Cities Christian Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 FIVE CITIES CHRISTIAN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 136 ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COLAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ARROYO GRANDE IN BLOOM INC ↗
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: Mankins Family Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Leo a & Minta L Brisco 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.