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Linden Root Dickinson Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $871k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $500,000 |
| SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $370,720 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $150,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $140,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $125,000 |
| KPBS | $118,750 |
| CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVERS & MORE RESCUE | $80,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC | $60,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $50,000 |
| COASTAL ROOTS FARM | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO | $40,000 |
| BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $605k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- SDSAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +74%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $525k · revenue +38%
- CCCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RCRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION-SDone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
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…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Calvin Christian School of Escondido Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds California Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF ESCONDIDO INC ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TO SOLDIER 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: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Linden Root Dickinson 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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