· Community foundation
Rancho Santa Fe Foundation
To connect donors with regional and global needs through visionary community leadership, personalized service and effective grantmaking.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $212k
- $10k–50k152 grants · $3.3M
- $50k–250k62 grants · $6.2M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $710,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $629,104 |
| ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS | $625,000 |
| WELLBEING FOUNDATION AMERICA INC | $600,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $400,251 |
| MIRAGLO FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $277,500 |
| NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY | $274,000 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $245,714 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE GARDEN CLUB | $235,000 |
| BURN INSTITUTE | $232,725 |
| LEGACY PLUS FOUNDATION | $230,000 |
| FUTURE LEGENDS | $216,500 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $206,010 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
336 repeat relationships — 163 still active in FY2024, 173 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +82%
- OGOLD GLOBE THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +38%
- MFMIRAGLO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +23% · 58% of their budget
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $500k
- CFCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +29%
CURE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +58%
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.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Predictive Health Analytics Institute. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
633 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 633 of the 726 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 SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MIRAGLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds WELLBEING FOUNDATION AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE LEGENDS ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIDE ON CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL CARE & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds WELLS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Palomar College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNDER THE SUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Squared ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION 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 · David C Copley Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 Rancho Santa Fe 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% 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.