· Private foundation
Pratt Memorial Fund
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION | $5,025 |
| AUTISM TREE PROJECT FOUNDATION | $5,025 |
| BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE | $5,025 |
| LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $5,025 |
| UNSCRIPTED LEARNING | $5,025 |
| LEAP TO SUCCESS | $5,025 |
| TAP FEVER STUDIOS | $5,025 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,025 |
| VETS BEYOND THE UNIFORM | $5,025 |
| THE COMFORT CUB | $5,025 |
| TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES | $5,025 |
| SAN DIEGO VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM | $5,025 |
| VIP NEUROREHABILITATION CENTER | $5,025 |
| WHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION | $5,025 |
| GIRLS RISING | $5,025 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $187k) 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 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.
114 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 14 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +74%
- ATAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +14%
- GLGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OFone grant, 2021 · $4k
- ISINTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -49%
- SDSAN DIEGO OASISone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
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.
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
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…
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
To provide the youth of san diego with an opportunity to study, understand, and appreciate, through education and participation, the art of ballet, and to enrich the cultural life of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Oasis and the most unlike its peers is Cooper Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
136 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. 136 of the 180 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 YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UNSCRIPTED LEARNING ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMISTAD CENTRO DE ENSENANZA ↗
- Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project ↗
- Who funds ELDER LAW & ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Leap to Success ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS RISING ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIES PLACE ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds San Diego Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
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: Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
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 Pratt Memorial Fund 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.