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Menard Family 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGES | $63,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $36,600 |
| SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART MINISTRY CENTEROAKWOOD | $25,500 |
| IGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS | $23,800 |
| ST PAUL'S SENIOR SERVICES | $23,000 |
| CASA DE LOS POBRES AC | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ST MADELEINE SOPHIE'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
| CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER | $19,588 |
| NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| RISE UP INDUSTRIES | $16,000 |
| LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE | $15,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 97% 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
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH9× · 2017–2025 · $994k · revenue +72%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO9× · 2017–2025 · $867k · revenue +28%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF SACRED HEART UGANDAKENYA SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CTCATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION AT CHICAGOone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +6%
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 restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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…
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 85 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 SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Birthline of San Diego County Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rise Up Industries ↗
- Who funds CYT SD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds BORDERLINKS ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH 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: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Lucky Duck Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
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 Menard Family 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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