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Masserini Maurice J Tua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$336kHealth$287kHousing & Shelter$169kArts & Culture$131kEducation$108kAnimals$100kYouth Development$80kFood & Nutrition$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME START INCORPORATED$15,000
SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC$15,000
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC$10,000
SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK$10,000
SAN DIEGO MASTER CHORALE$10,000
SCRIPPS HEALTH$10,000
RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
COMMUNITY HOUSINGWORKS$10,000
CASA DE AMPARO$10,000
PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC$10,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO$10,000
MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT$10,000
CUREBOUND INC$10,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 9%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED INC: $5k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $15k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $15k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $5k → 11%WHEELCHAIRDANCERS ORG: $5k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $20k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $15k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $10k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $10k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $9k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC: $8k → 11%THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $8k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $15k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$997k · 31 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
52

Total granted

$997k
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+16%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HS
    HOME START INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $117k · revenue +118%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
    7× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +17%
  • NH
    NOAH HOMES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • LE
    LONELY ENTREPRENEUR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +590%
  • IF
    IMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -94%
  • SM
    St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +21%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
3
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
4
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
7
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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8
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
9
San Diego Housing Federation

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…

Education
10
San Diego Kind Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
12
San Diego Diplomacy Council

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Seniors Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
54/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $65,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYNOAH HOMES INC: $64,000 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INCSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR IND…Casa De Amparo: $35,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoSAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human Services+7 more: $45,000 · Human Services+7 moreLa Jolla Historical Society: $31,800 · OtherLa Jolla Historical SocietySAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $30,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGOCalifornia Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue: $25,000 · OtherRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $20,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $25,000 · Other+46 more: $305,800 · Other+46 moreCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $70,500 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMU…SCRIPPS HEALTH: $40,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHSharp Healthcare Foundation: $30,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare…VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUND…ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $16,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S SAN …CUREBOUND: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $17,500 · Health+4 moreMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $50,000 · EducationMONARCH SC…NATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationNATIONAL U…LONELY ENTREPRENEUR INC: $15,500 · EducationLONELY ENT…OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EducationOCEAN DISC…THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE: $8,000 · EducationTHE SAN MA…BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationDISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $5,000 · EducationHOME START INC: $117,000 · Crime & LegalHOME STAR…Habitat of Humanity of Redwood River Inc: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of San Diego: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARPAL: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTSIDE THE LENS: $5,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$316,500Other$477,600Health$204,000Education$123,500Crime & Legal$117,000Housing & Shelter$86,000Youth Development$70,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOME START INC: $117,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $70,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $65,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC: $64,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $50,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat of Humanity of Redwood River Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLa Jolla Historical Society: $31,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLONELY ENTREPRENEUR INC: $15,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIMMUNOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of Greater San Diego: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCUREBOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSan Diego Master Chorale: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA MUSICA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR HOMES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetART OF ELAN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego FoundationCA90.8× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · David C Copley Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · The Parker Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Masserini Maurice J Tua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masserini Maurice J Tua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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