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Qualcomm Charitable 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Community Improvement$6.6MInternational$3.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MReligion$332kPhilanthropy$304kFood & Nutrition$152kEducation$151kHuman Services$133kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 84 grants below total $2,046,844 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,188,844 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $142,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $901k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $545k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$12,000
Median grant
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$250,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$250,000
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK$100,000
MYRIAD USA INC$80,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$75,000
FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA INC$70,000
MYRIAD USA INC$70,000
GREATER SAN DIEGO SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING$50,000
MYRIAD USA INC$50,000
ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY$50,000
MYRIAD USA INC$43,000
MYRIAD USA INC$40,323
MYRIAD USA INC$40,000
MYRIAD USA INC$37,000
MYRIAD USA INC$33,472
02Your field

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.

1
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank

The jacobs & cushman san diego food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related…

Food & Nutrition
6
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) connects people, ideas and resources to ensure equity and opportunity for all.

Philanthropy
7
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
8
San Diego Hunger Coalition

San diego hunger coalition works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
9
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
10
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
11
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
12
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in College Success. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Education Equity InitiativesFood Pantries and AssistanceDomestic Violence and Sexua…Community FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesVeteran Support ServicesCommunity Theater CompaniesVolunteer Fire & RescueAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Advocacy and …Christian Outreach Ministri…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%65%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,937

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.

03the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 88 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MYRIAD USA INC — $523,544 · OtherMYRIAD USA INCCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $423,800 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMSAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC — $250,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $100,000 · Other+67 more — $857,500 · Other+67 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $1,330,196 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATI…+3 more — $38,530 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $1,146,900 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR DISASTE…GIVE2ASIA — $869,150 · InternationalGIVE2ASIAUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation — $600,000 · EducationUS Chamber…PARTNERS IN COLLEGE SUCCESS — $50,000 · EducationPARTNERS I…+2 more — $20,000 · EducationUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC — $400,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $12,000 · Arts & CultureWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesNile Sisters Development Initiative — $12,000 · Human ServicesATTENTION INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $4,000 · Human Services
Other$2,404,844Philanthropy$1,368,726Public Safety & Disaster$1,146,900International$869,150Education$670,000Arts & Culture$412,000Human Services$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $1,330,196 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $1,146,900 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGIVE2ASIA — $869,150 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation — $600,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC — $400,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSCDRINC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUnited Way of Acton-Boxborough Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiamond Educational Excellence Partnership — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSANTA CLARA FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $13,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNile Sisters Development Initiative — $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW VILLAGE ARTS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteps Together A NJ Non Profit — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MILITARY OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATTENTION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
  • Who funds GIVE2ASIA
  • Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
  • Who funds US INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN COLLEGE SUCCESS
  • Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER
  • Who funds SCDRINC
  • Who funds United Way of Acton-Boxborough Inc
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
  • Who funds Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership
  • Who funds SANTA CLARA FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Nile Sisters Development Initiative
  • Who funds NEW VILLAGE ARTS 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.

The San Diego FoundationCA16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Qualcomm Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Qualcomm Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.3M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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