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· Public charity

Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$61MEducation$10MScience & Tech$50k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $18,849,087, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,560,687 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $711,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,674,427
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCRIPPS HEALTH$13,943,032
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER$2,674,427
UCSD$2,231,628
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Rady Children's Hospital Foundation-San Diego: $10.8M → 11%SAPIAN LABS: $50k → 7%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $7.4M → 11%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $7.2M → 11%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $3.6M → 11%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $3.4M → 11%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $2.7M → 11%Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center: $2.6M → 11%Rady Children's Hospital Research Center: $2.5M → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO: $2.0M → 11%Rady Children's Hospital Research Center: $1.4M → 11%Rady Children's Hospital Research Center: $1.2M → 11%Rady Children's Hospital Health Services: $25k → 11%NAMI SAN DIEGO: $14k → 11%NAMI SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%SCRIPPS HEALTH: $13.9M → 11%UCSD: $2.8M → 11%UCSD: $2.2M → 11%UCSD: $1.8M → 11%UCSD: $1.8M → 11%UCSD: $1.6M → 11%UCSD: $1.6M → 11%La Maestra Family Clinic: $40k → 11%LA MAESTRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $40k → 11%La Maestra Family Clinic: $40k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 67% of Rady Children's Hospital San Diego’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 33%.

Rady Children's Hospital San Diegolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 4 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$39M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $29M · revenue +60% · 35% of their budget
  • LA MAESTRA FAMILY CLINIC INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $120k · revenue +156%
  • NS
    NAMI SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2017 · $11M · revenue -24% · 27% of their budget
  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2.6M · revenue ×31 · 46% of their budget
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue 0%
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
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
2
California Health M R C
Community Improvement
3
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
4
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Marin General Hospital

To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.

Health
6
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
7
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
8
Rush Copley Medical Center

To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
9
Sharp Healthcare

To promote health care through supporting and/or operating, directly or through wholly-owned subsidiaries and other appropriate management arrangements, hospitals and other medically-related facilities and activities in the state of…

Health
10
Sharp Memorial Hospital

Sharp memorial hospital provides comprehensive medical services to the san diego community.

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rady Children's Health Services San Diego; the most unlike its peers is Sapien Labs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $29,196,754 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTERSCRIPPS HEALTH: $13,943,032 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHRADY CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,571,158 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HEALTH+2 more: $170,000 · HealthREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $9,578,682 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $2,231,628 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEG…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $2,000,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE …+2 more: $48,752 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $10,838,910 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S H…
Health$45,880,944Other$13,859,062Philanthropy$10,838,910

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $29,196,754 over 8y, 35% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $13,943,032 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $10,838,910 over 1y, 27% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,571,158 over 1y, 46% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $2,231,628 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLA MAESTRA FAMILY CLINIC INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAPIEN LABS: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HEALTH SERVICES SAN DIEGO: $25,002 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI SAN DIEGO: $23,750 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Price Philanthropies …The San Diego Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Price Philanthropies FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Price Philanthropies Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rady Children's Hospital San Diego funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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