· Public charity
Lions Club of San Diego
Provides the management services for lion's club and lion's welfare foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $42,834 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $194,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,693 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIONS CAMP JACK | $27,544 |
| LIONS OPTOMETRIC VISION CLIN | $8,290 |
| TRAVELERS AID SOCIETY OF SD | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $36k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $410k · revenue +28%
- SDSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR THE BLIND3× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +53%
- SDSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM3× · 2018–2022 · $17k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LCLIONS COMMUNITY SERVICE CORP CO ROYAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $257k · revenue +110%
- EOELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +5%
- SDSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +46%
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.
Services for Seniors-The Mission of the Peninsula Shepherd Center is to provide a support system which helps allow for older adults to live independently and self-sufficiently in their homes for as long as possible, while providing…
To advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people affected by cerebral palsy and other disabilities by offering the following programs: adult day and employment programs, an assistive technology center, a toy and…
Assist African Americans and other underserved people in San Diego County to acheive social and economic equality through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research.
Provide recreation, social, and educational activities for blind and visually impaired persons.
To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.
Established by the city of san diego, ca, the organizations exempt function is to provide low cost recreational opportunities for individuals with disabilities and older adults. support is generated from individual and organization…
Feeding the homeless population in san d
The mission is to provide support and services for children and adults with developmental disabilities.
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Dedicated to promoting equal access to economic prosperity, safe and vibrant communities, and an enhanced quality of life to ensure every san diegan has the opportunity to succeed. one san diego supports the interest of neighborhoods…
The san diego lgbt community center enhances and sustains the health & well-being of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, nonbinary, immigrant, and hiv communities to the betterment of our entire san diego region.
The mission of Rancho Research Institute (RRI) is to conduct medical research and education activities at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (Rancho)See Schedule O for more details.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rise Up Industries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIONS COMMUNITY SERVICE CORP CO ROYAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Travelers Aid Society of San Diego ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LIONS OPTOMETRIC VISION CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc ↗
- Who funds Rise Up Industries ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA CAL-DIEGO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Uptown Faith Community Service ↗
- Who funds VILLA MUSICA ↗
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 · San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Pratt Memorial Fund · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett 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 Lions Club of San Diego 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.