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Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club

The specific purpose of this organization is to further the development of charitable horticultural and charitable conservation activities, both within and outside the community of rancho santa fe

$144k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$100k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$6,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$52k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesEmploymentArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$100k36%
FY202411$115k27%
FY202312$111k67%
FY202217$106k65%
FY202112$104k58%
FY202014$93k79%
FY20199$77k89%
FY20185$35k60%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$236kFood & Nutrition$173kEnvironment$149kEmployment$42kArts & Culture$34kReligion$25kRecreation & Sports$23kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Agrarian Institute$85,400368%
Coastal Roots Farm$53,56161%
Darnall Charter School$52,08050%
Friends of San Pasqual Academy Inc$30,0003n/a
Encinitas Educational Foundation$29,10031%
Samuel Lawrence Foundation$25,20034%
Solutions for Change Inc$25,07630%
DVine Path Inc$25,00031%
TERI Inc$21,25720%
Ecology Center$20,00020%
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All grantees of Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Agrarian Institute$85,400368%
Coastal Roots Farm$53,56161%
Darnall Charter School$52,08050%
Friends of San Pasqual Academy Inc$30,0003n/a
Encinitas Educational Foundation$29,10031%
Samuel Lawrence Foundation$25,20034%
Solutions for Change Inc$25,07630%
DVine Path Inc$25,00031%
TERI Inc$21,25720%
Ecology Center$20,00020%
Farmacy Initiative$19,0002n/a
Urban Corps of San Diego County$17,00020%
Healthy Day Partners$16,50029%
Rancho Santa Fe Association$14,30020%
Ocean Knoll PTA$12,50024%
San Diego Unified School District$10,5001n/a
Vista Academy Foundation$10,000169%
Ecolife Conservation$10,00011%
Monarch School Project$9,65020%
Miracosta College Foundation$9,50010%
San Dieguito Academy Foundation$9,00012%
Balboa Park Conservancy$8,5201n/a
Solana Beach School District$7,5001n/a
San Diego Children's Discovery Museum$7,30010%
San Diego Second Chance Program$7,20010%
Garden 31 Community Initiative Inc$6,50011%
Humane Smarts Farm$5,8681n/a
Agua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation$5,70011%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad$5,60010%
PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC aka Calavera Hills Elementary PTA$5,500117%
Nature Collective$5,00010%
Friends of Hope School$5,00014%
San Dieguito Heritage Museum$1,91913%
Paiges Pantry$1,38615%
Urban Life Ministries Incorporated$1,0001n/a

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAgrarian Institute: $85,400 over 3y, 68% of budgetCoastal Roots Farm: $53,561 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDarnall Charter School: $52,080 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEncinitas Educational Foundation: $29,100 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSamuel Lawrence Foundation: $25,200 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSolutions for Change Inc: $25,076 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDVine Path Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTERI Inc: $21,257 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEcology Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Corps of San Diego County: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealthy Day Partners: $16,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetRancho Santa Fe Association: $14,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Knoll PTA: $12,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetVista Academy Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetEcolife Conservation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMonarch School Project: $9,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMiracosta College Foundation: $9,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Dieguito Academy Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSan Diego Children's Discovery Museum: $7,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSan Diego Second Chance Program: $7,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGarden 31 Community Initiative Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAgua Hedionda Lagoon Foundation: $5,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad: $5,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC aka Calavera Hills Elementary PTA: $5,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetNature Collective: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Hope School: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSan Dieguito Heritage Museum: $1,919 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPaiges Pantry: $1,386 over 1y, 5.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

The San Diego Foundat…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…David C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…The Nordson Corporati…Samuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundEast County Economic …Leichtag FoundationWild Wisdom Foundatio…
The San Diego FoundationCA41.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · East County Economic Development Council · Leichtag Foundation · Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly a Cerami & a Dunne Fdn for World Health)

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.

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About Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club

How much does Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club give?
Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club reported 11 itemized grants totaling $99,694, out of $143,732 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Environment (19%).
Who are Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Agrarian Institute ($85k), Coastal Roots Farm ($54k), Darnall Charter School ($52k).
Does Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
Where is Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club based?
Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club is based in CA.

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 59 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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