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Nutritional Research Foundation at a glance

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Nutritional Research Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$72kHuman Services$35kReligion$19kCommunity Improvement$15kYouth Development$15kCrime & Legal$11kHealth$7kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$260k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LDS CHARITIES$10,000
SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES$7,000
BYU PATHWAY WORLDWIDE$5,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$3,000
A PLACE CALLED HOME$2,000
SAN DIEGO PARKS FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 13 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$177k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+53%

Still filing today

46%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEmploymentHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +222%
  • VF
    VOICES FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +0%
  • PB
    PACIFIC BEACH TOWN COUNCIL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $9k · revenue +293%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SG
    ST GERMAINE CHILDERN'S CHARITY CO WENDY NERI
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Crime Commission

Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…

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3
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
4
Save Oceanside Sand

Save Oceanside Sand is a group of local activists dedicated to restoring and preserving the beaches of Oceanside, California. Working with local, regional, state, and federal authorities, our mission is to protect this vital resource by…

Education
5
Regional Task Force On the Homeless

RTFH exists to reduce and end homelessness in San Diego, ensuring that if this situation does happen for anyone, it remains a rare, brief and non-recurring instance; not an outcome.

Human Services
6
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
7
Honorary Deputy Sheriffs Assn of S D County

The honorary deputy sheriffs associations primary mission is to initiate, sponsor, promote and carry out plans, policies, activities and development of the san diego sheriffs

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8
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
9
San Diego Veterans Coalition

The san diego veterans coalition (sdvc) is a catalyst that inspires collaboration and cooperation among service partners to deliver premier support for veterans in the san diego region.during 2023 the san diego veterans coalition (sdvc)…

Public Benefit
10
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
11
Dreams for Change Inc

Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.

Human Services
12
San Diego Fishermens Working Group

San Diego Fishermens Working Group is working to squarely place in the publics mind the importance of commercial fishing to our regions food security, and to the economic, social, and cultural fabric of the greater San Diego region. SDFWG…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shoreline Community Services; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Beach Town Council. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LDS CHARITIES: $68,600 · OtherLDS CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBYU PATHWAY WORLDWIDE: $10,000 · OtherBYU PATHWAY WORLDWIDEA PLACE CALLED HOME: $10,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMEPACIFIC BEACH STREET GUARDIANS CO CARYN BLANTON: $9,500 · OtherPACIFIC BEACH STREET GUARDIANS CO CARYN BLANTONBRIDGE OF FAITH CO CAROL REZA: $9,000 · OtherBRIDGE OF FAITH CO CAROL REZASUNFLOWER HILL CO DIANE BERRY: $6,000 · OtherST GERMAINE CHILDREN'S CHARITY CO WENDY NERI: $6,000 · Other+8 more: $21,500 · Other+8 moreSHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $11,000 · Civil RightsPACIFIC BEACH TOWN COUNCIL: $9,000 · Community ImprovementALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $2,000 · HealthTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EnvironmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$152,600Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$11,000Community Improvement$9,000Health$7,000Environment$5,500Youth Development$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC BEACH TOWN COUNCIL: $9,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Parks Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC BEACH TOWN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Cushman FoundationThe San Diego Foundat…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cushman FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cushman Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nutritional Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nutritional Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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