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Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundation
The foundation's main purpose is to raise funds and awareness for crohn's and colitis diseases, along with providing support to other charities using funds raised through annual golf tournaments.
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 8 grants below total $583,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $598,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,000 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| CAMP PENDLETON ARMED SERVICES YMCA | $150,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $75,000 |
| EMBRACING OSTOMY LIFE | $75,000 |
| PRO KIDS THE FIRST TEE OF SAN DIEGO | $55,000 |
| ALEX MORGAN FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| DIAMANTE FIRST TEE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOYS TO MEN MENTORING NETWORK | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +61% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $936k · revenue +12%
- PKPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +70%
- LDLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $335k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +12%
- NCNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTERone grant, 2024 · $255k · revenue +6%
- PFPADRES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $63k · revenue 0%
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.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.
To increase awareness and action toward issues impacting seniors and to increase philanthropy to senior-focused organizations. together, we can create a future where seniors are no longer vulnerable but vibrant.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
San diego kind corporation, a ca non profit organization, creates and develops housing and services for the low income elderly and also contributes to other low income senior service and housing projects.
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
A not-for-profit credit union wholly owned by its members
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Embracing Ostomy Life Fka Grateful Patient Foundation. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 32 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 CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Embracing Ostomy Life FKA Grateful Patient Foundation ↗
- Who funds PADRES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds DIAMANTE FIRST TEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS ↗
- Who funds LUNG AND HEART TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Country Friends · Walter J & Betty C Zable 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 Rolf Benirschke Legacy 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.
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.
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