· Public charity
Madcaps Inc
The mission of madcaps is to involve mothers and daughters in directservice to and support of established philanthropic organizations.
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.
The 3 grants below total $30,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $83,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRS | $10,000 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
| AUTISM TREE | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $22k) 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 +48% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- ATAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC4× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +28%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC2× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +124%- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- DSDISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -61%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +48%
YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.
The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…
To increase awareness and action toward issues impacting seniors and to increase philanthropy to senior-focused organizations. together, we can create a future where seniors are no longer vulnerable but vibrant.
Elderhelp of san diego, inc. is a california non-profit public benefit corporation formed for the purpose of providing personalized services, information, and coordinated care to help san diego's seniors remain independent and live with…
To be the leader in providing all-inclusive innovative solutions to the health and social service needs of san diego's elderly.
San diego kind corporation, a ca non profit organization, creates and develops housing and services for the low income elderly and also contributes to other low income senior service and housing projects.
San diego interfaith housing foundation's mission is to sponsor and assist in the development of quality low cost, single and multi-family housing for low income and handicapped persons in the greater san diego metropolitan area.
Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.
The organization's mission is to improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income residents of the city of san diego and county of san diego.
To preserve and increase affordable housing opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Village Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S RETIREMENT HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR DENTAL CENTER 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 · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Madcaps Inc 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.