· Private foundation
Louis and Arlene Navias 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Louis and Arlene Navias Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The San Diego Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Louis and Arlene Navias Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $229k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k25 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY | $27,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $18,000 |
| KINDNESS INITIATIVE | $10,800 |
| USLBA MEMORIAL FUND | $10,000 |
| SEACREST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO | $9,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $5,400 |
| CHAI S AFRICA IN SAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGES | $5,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 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
- DHDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +15%
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH6× · 2019–2024 · $128k · revenue +46%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- HVHOPE VILLAGE CHESED HOMESone grant, 2019 · $11k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -28%
- USUCSD SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
San diego center for jewish culture ("cjc") is a california 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in january 1999. cjc is housed at lawrence family jewish community centers of san diego county. cjc provides a wide…
Jfsla's mission is to provide life-improving services that help the people of los angeles live with dignity and exercise self-determination. we believe in and strive for a more compassionate los angeles where no one has to navigate life…
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
Hillel seeks to be a vibrant jewish presence for san diego college students.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
The jacobs & cushman san diego food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Uslba Memorial Fund Inc. 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 51 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 47 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 Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FuelEd Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds USLBA MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Karney Flaster Family Foundation · The Eisenberg Family Foundation · Spielman Family Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Leichtag Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Louis and Arlene Navias 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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