· Public charity
Patrons of the Prado
Raising funds to benefit the arts, science and cultural centers on the prado in balboa park and for programs that provide eduational access for san diego school children to the museums and arts in balboa park.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO HISTORY CENTER | $103,410 |
| SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART | $103,410 |
| THE FLEET SCIENCE CENTER | $103,410 |
| THE OLD GLOBE THEATER | $103,410 |
| SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $103,410 |
| MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM | $103,410 |
| SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF US | $103,410 |
| SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATER | $103,410 |
| TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART | $103,410 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +48% since the first grant, against -48% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +228%
- SDSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY7× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +48%
- MIMingei International Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO SPORTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue -48%
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.
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The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
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Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
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How this is measured
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.
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 SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Mingei International Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Peterson Charitable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Favrot Fund · Heller Foundation of San Diego
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Patrons of the Prado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrons of the Prado. Bigger dots raise more.
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