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Rancho Santa Fe Womens Fund

Schedule O Statement Attached - The Rancho Santa Fe Womens Fund (RSFWF) solicits tax-deductible contributions from members and other donors to provide financial grants to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations that address the critical needs of San Diego County residents.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
$48,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Charities of SD$75,000
Chicano Federation of SD$75,000
Pro Kids First Tee$50,000
The Elizabeth Hospice$50,000
Mitchell Thorp Foundation$50,000
Boys & Girls Club of NWSD$48,000
USD Hahn School of Nursing$35,000
Blue Star Families$30,000
Classics4Kids$30,000
Jacobs & Cushman SD Food Bank$25,000
Boys to Men Mentoring$25,000
Friends of SanPasqual Academy$25,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $175k) 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.

area typical 8%Chicano Federation of SD: $75k → 11%The Elizabeth Hospice: $50k → 11%Mitchell Thorp Foundation: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your 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
San Diego Blood Bank

The san diego blood bank (sdbb) is a california not-for-profit public benefit corporation established in 1950. the san diego blood bank collects, processes, stores and distributes blood components that meets or exceeds the needs of each…

2
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
San Diego County Credit Union

A not-for-profit credit union wholly owned by its members

5
San Diego Diplomacy Council

Programmed and coordinated visits to san diego by international visitors and escorts, working in association with appropriate united states government agencies and the global ties u.s. network.

Community Improvement
6
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
7
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
8
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
San Diego Christian College

San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.

Education
11
San Diego County Bar Association

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,…

12
San Diego County Bar Foundation

Grants to non-profits that provide access to justice to underserved in San Diego County.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicano Federation of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Mitchell Thorp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO — $75,000 · Human ServicesCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGOMitchell Thorp Foundation — $50,000 · Human ServicesMitchell Thorp FoundationTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INCROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO — $75,000 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF…UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Men Men…PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPRO KIDS G…CLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitSAN PASQUAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$175,000Other$110,000Youth Development$73,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Arts & Culture$30,000Public Benefit$30,000Philanthropy$25,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

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 budgetCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMitchell Thorp Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $48,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 FoundationCA21.3× affinity8 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Stafford Memorial Tr Found Tua · Masserini Maurice J Tua · Barney & Barney Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 Womens Fund 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rancho Santa Fe Womens Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Rancho Santa Fe Womens Fund 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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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