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Parma 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Parma Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Campanile Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Parma Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $14k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GERALD R FORD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HAWAII PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK | $2,500 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA | $1,000 |
| MCCALLUM THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| PEDAL THE CAUSE | $1,000 |
| HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCSigma Chi Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +32%
- MFMesa Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +56%
- GRGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +151%
- BSBISHOP SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $5k
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +35%
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.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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.
Programmed and coordinated visits to san diego by international visitors and escorts, working in association with appropriate united states government agencies and the global ties u.s. network.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
The university of san diego is a contemporary catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts and anchored along an international border, advancing academic excellence to create a more inclusive, sustainable and hopeful world.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
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…
To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Campanile Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sing for America Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mesa Foundation ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPORTS SD INC ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SING FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SPORT HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Parma 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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