· Private foundation
Maria Mandico and Benet Marquet 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC | $11,250 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE CLEARITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC | $1,500 |
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $1,000 |
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 11%. 4% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- LJLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +4%
- CCUREBOUND3× · 2019–2023 · $21k · revenue +21%
- VFVOICES FOR CHILDREN3× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CFChopra Foundationone grant, 2018 · $96k · revenue +1%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SDSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +52%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
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 policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
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 uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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 Chopra Foundation ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds KYOTO SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Clearity Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONNECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BIOCOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Illumina Corporate Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Maria Mandico and Benet Marquet 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.