· Private foundation
Price Philanthropies Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Price Philanthropies Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 213 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Price Philanthropies Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 216 organizations, $16M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k95 grants · $304k
- $10k–50k98 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k59 grants · $5.6M
- $250k+11 grants · $8.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,646,461 |
| PRICESMART FOUNDATION | $1,634,521 |
| SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $894,061 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $655,000 |
| SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $568,706 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES | $350,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $313,372 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET & POLICY PRIORITIES | $300,000 |
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
| THE OLD GLOBE | $259,717 |
| CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $252,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERISTY OF CA AT SAN DIEGO | $222,796 |
| SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO | $214,717 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $207,829 |
| SAN DIEGO PARKS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
351 repeat relationships — 220 still active in FY2023, 131 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k 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
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +39%- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +61%
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES4× · 2020–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +1%
Funded once
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -21%- COCENTER ON BUDGET & POLICY PRIORITIESone grant, 2020 · $300k
- GHGrossmont Hospital Foundationone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +5%
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 Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
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 the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
To advance workforce and talent development within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") sectors by fostering excellence in education, expanding access to opportunities, and delivering transformative resources to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kupanda. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
429 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. 429 of the 569 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRICESMART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MENDING MATTERS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds VAPA Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
- Who funds United Women of East Africa Support Team ↗
- Who funds UNION OF PAN ASIAN COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd
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 Price Philanthropies 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.
- International Social Service United States of America Branch Inc — 72% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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