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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.

$598k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.6MYouth Development$736kAnimals$410kHousing & Shelter$400kCrime & Legal$395kHuman Services$376kReligion$155kFood & Nutrition$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $583,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $598,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$160,000
CAMP PENDLETON ARMED SERVICES YMCA$150,000
EMBRACING OSTOMY LIFE$75,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALEX MORGAN FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%Armed Services YMCA: $10k → 6%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 12 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$3.2M
$873k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+6%

Still filing today

92%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $936k · revenue +12%
  • PK
    PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +70%
  • LD
    LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $335k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +12%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $255k · revenue +6%
  • PF
    PADRES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $63k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
United Way of San Diego County

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

Philanthropy
3
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy
6
San Diego Seniors Community Foundation

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.

Human Services
7
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
8
San Diego Kind Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
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
10
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
11
San Diego County Credit Union

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

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12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $935,800 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $334,550 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATIONCUREBOUND: $279,200 · HealthCUREBOUNDAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $81,000 · HealthEmbracing Ostomy Life FKA Grateful Patient Foundation: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $301,050 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE US…NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER: $255,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION …TERI Inc: $165,000 · OtherTERI IncMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $145,000 · OtherMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN D…EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC: $60,000 · OtherVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INCCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $45,000 · Other+10 more: $100,000 · Other+10 morePRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $470,000 · Recreation & SportsPRO KIDS GOL…+1 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $400,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $160,000 · PhilanthropyPADRES FOUNDATION: $63,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $206,400 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $195,000 · Civil Rights
Health$1,715,550Other$1,116,050Recreation & Sports$485,000Animals$400,000Philanthropy$228,000Youth Development$211,400Civil Rights$195,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $935,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $470,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $334,550 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCUREBOUND: $279,200 over 3y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER: $255,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $206,400 over 7y, 20% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $195,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTERI Inc: $165,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $160,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $145,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $81,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPADRES FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIAMANTE FIRST TEE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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…Jewish Community Foun…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…David C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Billingsley Foundatio…The Parker FoundationThe Cushman FoundationThe Country FriendsWalter J & Betty C Za…
The San Diego FoundationCA39.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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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