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Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia Foundation at a glance

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Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia 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.

$144k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$260kHuman Services$183kEnvironment$125kHealth$110kFood & Nutrition$34kPublic Benefit$30kHousing & Shelter$6kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION$40,000
MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA$26,000
SAN DIEGO BOTANIC GARDEN$23,500
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$22,500
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$12,500
CASA DE AMPARO$5,000
COASTAL ROOTS FARM$5,000
DON DIEGO FUND$4,000
MEXICAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOUNDATION$3,000
JOSEPH SHINODA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC$1,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$1,000
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 (FY21–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CASA DE AMPARO: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $1k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $1k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $11k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 11%MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$764k · 21 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -90% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
2

Total granted

$764k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-90%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +195%
  • QB
    QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +204%
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -90%
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 County Citizens' Scholars Foundation
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2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
4
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
5
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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6
San Diego Historical Society

The mission of the san diego history center is to preserve our region's history - tell the diverse story of our region's past, present, and future; educate and enrich our community; and foster civic pride.

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7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
8
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
9
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
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
12
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University San Marcos Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Joseph Shinoda Memorial Scholarship Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUND…SCRIPPS HEALTH: $106,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $101,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $52,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERCasa De Amparo: $29,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $119,500 · EnvironmentQUAIL BOTANICAL GA…Sustainable Conservation: $5,000 · EnvironmentCITY OF ENCINITAS COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM: $30,000 · OtherCITY OF ENCINITA…COASTAL ROOTS FARM: $25,000 · OtherCOASTAL ROOTS FA…MEXICAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherMEXICAN AMERICAN…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant…PAUL ECKE CENTRAL PTA: $4,140 · OtherNORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $4,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $4,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $4,000 · Other+3 more: $6,500 · Other+3 moreDON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $21,708 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC: $3,600 · EducationENCINITAS PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$306,000Human Services$182,500Environment$124,500Other$113,640Education$40,308Housing & Shelter$6,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $119,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $106,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $101,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $21,708 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMEXICAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENCINITAS PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC: $3,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOSEPH SHINODA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 San Diego Foundat…Leichtag FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…Dankberg Family Found…Allison and Robert Pr…The Country FriendsFrench Fund Samuel Ka…Walter J & Betty C Za…
The San Diego FoundationCA24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Dankberg Family Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · The Country Friends · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Walter J & Betty C Zable 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 Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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