· Private foundation
Philip D Sokol 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Scripps Foundation | $80,000 |
| San Diego Humane Society | $50,000 |
| San Diego Justice Foundation | $40,000 |
| Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance | $25,000 |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | $25,000 |
| Mama's Kitchen | $25,000 |
| Promises2Kids | $20,000 |
| Center for Community Solutions | $15,000 |
| Springboard to Learning | $15,000 |
| Student Diplomact Corps | $15,000 |
| San Diego County Office of Educatio | $15,000 |
| Urban Surf 4 Kids | $10,000 |
| Father Joe's Villages | $10,000 |
| High Tech High Foundation | $5,000 |
| BSA Troop 11 | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO3× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +12%
- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +1%
- MKMAMA'S KITCHEN7× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- SScrippsone grant, 2024 · $50k
- JIJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTHone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
- USUC San Diegoone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.
Founded in 1887, the center is the oldest children's nonprofit in the region accredited by the joint commission for its excellence in quality of care. the center provides a continuum of therapeutic & educational services to youth &…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is URBANSURF4KIDS. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 THE SAN DIEGO JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds STUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBANSURF4KIDS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds KATHYS LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds High Tech High Foundation ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
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 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Philip D Sokol 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.