· Public charity
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
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $99,694 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $143,732 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,038 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AGRARIAN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| DVINE PATH | $10,000 |
| ENCINITAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO IMPERIAL COUNCIL SC | $7,606 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRY CENTER | $6,800 |
| LIBERTY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL | $6,758 |
| GARDEN 31 COMMUNITY INITIATIV | $6,500 |
| OCEAN KNOLL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,030 |
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 (FY18–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- AIAGRARIAN INSTITUTE3× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +136% · 68% of their budget
- CRCOASTAL ROOTS FARM6× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +146%
- DCDARNALL CHARTER SCHOOL5× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $11k
- ECECOLIFE CONSERVATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +20%
- MVMesa Verde Middle Schoolone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Agriculturalists wanting to advance agricultural literacy for students in San Diego County.
The mission of san diego botanic garden: we garden to create, share, and apply plant wisdom in our world. the organization's diverse topography and wide variety of microclimates provides visitors with the varied sensations of strolling…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To promote, protect and restore the natural habitats in San Diego County's canyons and creeks. We do this by fostering education and ongoing community involvement in stewardship and advocacy, and by collaborating with other organizations.
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
The mission of the Earth Discovery Institute is to conduct habitat restoration and environmental education serving under-resourced youth.
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.
The Montessori Method helps all children become truly capable and productive individuals by focusing on their moral, behavioral, emotional, and intellectual development. Our Montessori Guides are Association of Montessori Internationale…
To inspire children to learn about and value the natural world through garden-based education. We grow the next generation of environmental stewards, build a life-long enthusiasm for science and math, and develop a love of healthy eating.…
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
Cacti and succulent plants educational programs
To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Dieguito Academy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Paiges Pantry. 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 30 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 59 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
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 AGRARIAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds DARNALL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ENCINITAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL LAWRENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds DVine Path Inc ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY DAY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ocean Knoll PTA ↗
- Who funds ECOLIFE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGUITO ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GARDEN 31 COMMUNITY INITIATIVE 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 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)
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 Garden Club 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.
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.