· Private foundation
McBETH FOUNDATION
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TERI INC | $150,000 |
| PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $113,500 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAN CLEMENTE VILLAGE | $100,000 |
| BEYOND BLINDNESS | $100,000 |
| NEW VISTA SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH ORANGE COUNTY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CAL - DAVIS | $100,000 |
| CASA TERESA | $100,000 |
| SOUTH COAST SYMPHONY | $85,000 |
| LAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART | $82,700 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT | $75,000 |
| ZOOLOLOGICAL SOCIETY SD | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $665k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 13 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $839k · revenue +51%
- NVNEW VISTA SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $785k · revenue +86%
- SCSAN CLEMENTE VILLAGE8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +173% · 96% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCTR FOR AUTISM NEURODEVELOPMENTAL Done grant, 2017 · $35k
- CSCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC Fone grant, 2017 · $25k
- GSGET SCHOOLEDone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…
SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
The mission of Pawsitive Teams is to enhance the lives of individuals with special needs who live in San Diego county by using the skills of highly trained service, facility and therapy dogs.
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.
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.
Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ocean Institute and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 416 Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 66 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 FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VISTA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN CLEMENTE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Grossmont Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA CANYON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ICEC ↗
- Who funds READING LEGACIES ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRACI'S PAWS ↗
- Who funds Golden West College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLES IN SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SAINTS YOUTH HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STREET VET ↗
- Who funds PADI AWARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings for Animals 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: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Memorial Health Services Group Return · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable 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 McBETH 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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