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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGES | $63,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $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 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ST MADELEINE SOPHIE'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER | $19,588 |
| NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY | $17,500 |
| RISE UP INDUSTRIES | $16,000 |
| LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE | $15,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH9× · 2017–2025 · $994k · revenue +82%
- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 85 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 SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Menard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Menard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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