· Private foundation
Melvin Garb Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $260,000 |
| DIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION | $200,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $112,000 |
| SEACREST FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VEHICLES FOR CHANGE - SAN DIEGO | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO | $75,000 |
| LEAP TO SUCCESS | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD | $50,000 |
| KITCHENS FOR GOOD | $50,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| SD MEMORIAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| PENDLETON COMMUNITY FUND | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LTLeap to Success9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +114%
- DRDIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION8× · 2017–2025 · $620k · revenue +25%
- SFSEACREST FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $606k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- TATURNOUT ACTIVISM INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ARC OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +12%
- HIHILLEL INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
San diego center for jewish culture ("cjc") is a california 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in january 1999. cjc is housed at lawrence family jewish community centers of san diego county. cjc provides a wide…
the organization was created to operate a high school serving the Jewish community of San Diego. Our mission is to prepare individuals for a lifetime of learning, spiritual growth, and community responsibility as Jews. Our goal is to…
San diego hunger coalition works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy.
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
- Who funds Leap to Success ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VEHICLES FOR CHANGE SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HEBREW HOMES ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds TURNOUT ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds The Butterfly Project ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Burn Institute ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Circle TLC Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ASELTINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sunbird Initiative ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Stern Leichter Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Country Friends · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin Garb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin Garb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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