· Private foundation
Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ROUSTABOUTS THEATRE COMPANY | $4,000 |
| COASTAL ROOTS FARM | $3,000 |
| SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| THERAPY CENTER INC - CHALLENGE | $3,000 |
| CURA SMILES | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL DELIVERY SAN DIEGO | $3,000 |
| MAKE A WISH SAN DIEGO | $3,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE GREATER SAN DIEGO | $3,000 |
| SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC | $3,000 |
| VISTA HILL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO | $3,000 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $3,000 |
| YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $158k) 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.
125 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY4× · 2021–2024 · $21k · revenue +74%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +27%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- STSHELTER TO SOLDIER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +45%
ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%- TATHIRD AVE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Oasis and the most unlike its peers is Cooper Family 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
140 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. 140 of the 174 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 YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CURA SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Opera Neo ↗
- Who funds ELDER LAW & ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Southern California Immigration Project ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds Fern Street Community Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds READING LEGACIES ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds San Diego Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS ↗
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: Pratt Memorial Fund · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
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 Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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.