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Mortimer M Kopp & Lilly L Kopp Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2018
26
Grants FY2018
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Religion$6kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kHealth$600Civil Rights$600Public Safety & Disaster$500Human Services$450Arts & Culture$311Other$0
02FY2018 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
7
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Temple Solel$6,000
Jewish National Fund$1,000
Friends of Israel Defense Force$536
American Friends of Magen David Ado$518
Individual grant recipient$500
Congregation Beth Am$450
Individual grant recipient$400
Simon Wiesenthal Center$350
San Diego Police Foundation$250
American Red Cross$250
Rady's Children Hospital$200
Jewish Community Youth Services$200
US Holocaust Museum$200
Ronald McDonald House$150
World Jewish Congress$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Make a Wish Foundation: $100 → 11%US Holocaust Museum: $200 → 12%Rady's Children Hospital: $200 → 11%Simon Wiesenthal Center: $350 → 14%United with Israel: $400 → 6%World Jewish Congress: $150 → 17%De Paul University School of Law: $50 → 14%US Holocaust Museum: $86 → 12%Ronald McDonald House: $150 → 11%Honest Reporting: $100 → 14%American Friends of Magen David Ado: $518 → 17%Jewish Community Youth Services: $200 → 14%March of Dimes: $100 → 11%Meir Panim: $500 → 14%American Friends of Magen David Ado: $50 → 17%Jewish Family Services: $100 → 11%Jewish Family Services: $50 → 11%March of Dimes: $25 → 11%Congregation Beth Am: $450 → 11%KBPS: $25 → 11%Temple Solel: $6k → 11%Jewish National Fund: $1k → 11%American Diabetes Assoc: $125 → 11%Randy Jones Foundation: $50 → 11%San Diego Police Foundation: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2k · 6 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$2k
$25

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • FO
    Friends of Israel Defense Force
    2× · 2017–2018 · $572
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $568 · revenue +206%
  • UH
    US Holocaust Museum
    2× · 2017–2018 · $286

Funded once

  • K
    KBPS
    one grant, 2017 · $25

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

04Your field

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.

1
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
4
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

6
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute

The SDBRI mission is to find new ways to predict and prevent cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, neurological disorders and HIV infection, and to accelerate medical advances that maintain health and improve quality of life.

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
8
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Adam R Scripps Foundation
Philanthropy
10
University of Southern California

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…

Education
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $6,000 · OtherTEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INCJewish National Fund — $1,000 · OtherJewish National FundFriends of Israel Defense Force — $572 · OtherFriends of Israel Defense ForceIndividual grant recipient — $500 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AM — $450 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $400 · Other+12 more — $1,696 · Other+12 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $568 · InternationalSCRIPPS HEALTH — $150 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $125 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $125 · HealthSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $350 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION — $250 · Crime & LegalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250 · Human ServicesAMCHA Initiative — $100 · Civil RightsRandy Jones Foundation Inc — $50 · Recreation & Sports
Other$10,618International$568Health$400Arts & Culture$350Crime & Legal$250Human Services$250Civil Rights$100Recreation & Sports$50

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $568 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMCHA Initiative — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds AMCHA Initiative
  • Who funds Randy Jones Foundation 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mortimer M Kopp & Lilly L Kopp Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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