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M & I Pfister Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $225,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO | $170,250 |
| LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA | $100,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $38,000 |
| LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $30,000 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES4× · 2017–2021 · $740k · revenue +47%
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2024 · $640k · revenue +97%
- TNTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM3× · 2021–2024 · $440k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +44%
- EDETHOS DISCOVERYone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +10%
- MCMUSEUM CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2022 · $67k
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.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
La Jolla Symphony Chorus Association was organized in 1957 under the nonprofit public benefit corporation laws for public and charitable purposes. The mission of the association is to inspire the San Diego community with the joy of music…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Programmed and coordinated visits to san diego by international visitors and escorts, working in association with appropriate united states government agencies and the global ties u.s. network.
The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Millennium Relief and Development Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHOS DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds La Jolla Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ASSN ↗
- Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA AQUATIC COMPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · Dr Seuss Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 M & I Pfister 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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