· Private foundation
Rice Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $353k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cuyamaca Community College | $50,850 |
| Monarch School | $30,000 |
| The Zoological Society of San Diego | $25,000 |
| San Diego Natural History Museum | $25,000 |
| Reuben H Fleet Science Center | $25,000 |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $20,000 |
| Reuben H Fleet Science Center | $20,000 |
| Classics 4 Kids | $16,980 |
| ArtsBusXpress | $15,000 |
| Words Alive | $15,000 |
| The New Children's Museum | $15,000 |
| The Water Conservation Garden | $15,000 |
| ArtReach | $10,500 |
| SD River Park Foundation | $10,160 |
| University of San Diego | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- RHREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +25%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +77%
- SDSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- FBFOREVER BALBOA PARKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +398%
- IFINDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
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…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
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…
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Heritage of the Americas Museum Inc. 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARTSBUSXPRESS ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE OF THE AMERICAS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Traveling Stories ↗
- Who funds NTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds Simon Youth Foundation 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 · The San Diego Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd
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 Rice Family 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.
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% 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.