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Myers 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 $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO | $250,000 |
| NEWMAN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| PASTOR OF SAINT JAMES CATHOLIC PARISH IN SOLANA BE | $30,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO | $25,000 |
| HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH PARISH LAKE ORION | $10,000 |
| VILLA ANGELA ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE A NON PROFIT CORPORA | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
John Carroll University8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +7%- MUMarquette University6× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +46%
- HWHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- CCCATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $698k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC SECONDARY EDUCATION OFone grant, 2023 · $450k
- CSCATHOLIC SECONDARY EDUCATION- DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $399k
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 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…
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.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
As a catholic university sponsored by the sisters of divine providence, our lady of the lake university is a community whose members are committed to serve students by: (continued on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village at Marymount and the most unlike its peers is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. 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 58 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLON COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORANGE EFFECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Village at Marymount ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PETCO LOVE ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Myers 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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