Skip to content
Peers Network at a glance

· Private foundation

Peers Network

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$91kHealth$77kYouth Development$65kHuman Services$28kInternational$11kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$3kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$228k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO$1,500
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 (FY20–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%MIRACLE BABIES: $10k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $2k → 11%NOAH HOMES: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 6 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
27

Total granted

$147k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • HD
    Humble Design Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $66k · revenue +85%
  • RC
    REALITY CHANGERS
    4× · 2018–2021 · $51k · revenue -29%
  • PF
    PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • SH
    STAY HOME SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
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
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
2
Hack the Hood Inc

Hack the Hood provides youth and communities of color with tech skill-building programs and career navigation support that are grounded in justice and ensure economic mobility.

Arts & Culture
3
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
4
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
5
The Arc of San Diego

The arc of san diego supports and empowers persons with disabilities to achieve their life goals.

Human Services
6
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
7
Youth Homes Inc

Youth Homes supports and empowers foster youth, underserved children, adolescents, and young adults through a comprehensive range of mental and behavioral health services designed to help them and their families achieve lasting, positive…

Human Services
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Urban League of San Diego County

Assist African Americans and other underserved people in San Diego County to acheive social and economic equality through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research.

—
10
Sport Innovators

To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…

Philanthropy
11
Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children's Services

Our mission is to provide our children and families with love, education and family based concurrent services. We feel honored to have served more than 20,176 children and youth during our 31 years of service.

Human Services
12
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $60,000 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSTAY HOME SAN DIEGO: $19,157 · OtherSTAY HOME SAN DIEGOPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATIONSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $10,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK+12 more: $16,683 · Other+12 moreHumble Design Inc: $66,350 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design IncREALITY CHANGERS: $50,978 · EducationREALITY CHANGERSENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $3,000 · EducationENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZ…MIRACLE BABIES: $12,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE B…SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO…CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesCORAZON D…NOAH HOMES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $10,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · InternationalRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $3,000 · HealthEmilio Nares Foundation: $2,000 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $1,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthGREATER THAN TECH: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$117,840Housing & Shelter$66,350Education$53,978Human Services$25,000International$11,000Health$7,000Youth Development$4,000

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 budgetHumble Design Inc: $66,350 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $50,978 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEURS ORGANIZATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD A MIRACLE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSISU ACADEMY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Pad: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDO CANCER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Price Philanthropies …The Country FriendsAlliance Healthcare F…Walter J & Betty C Za…Jewish Community Foun…David C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Billingsley Foundatio…The Cushman Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA29.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Country Friends · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · The Cushman 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 Peers Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peers Network. 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
    8report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Peers Network?

    Find your warmest path to Peers Network 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 33 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Peers Network’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home