· Public charity
San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Foundation
To promote, enhance, and finance the charitable purposes of the san diego downtown breakfast rotary club primarily through the establishment of an endowment fund, the income from which shall be used to support such charitable purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $35,464 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $206,635 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $171,171 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PUBLIC SPA | $12,000 |
| DESTINY HANDS INTERNATIONAL | $8,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE | $8,000 |
| SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT | $7,464 |
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 (FY17–20, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +111% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- UMUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +8%
- HFHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO2× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +54%
- AOANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +259%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TSThe San Diego River Park Foundationone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
- NLNAVY LEAGUE OF THE US SAN DIEGO COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -75%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Lake Chapala Charities Inc. 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 28 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) — 5% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 USS MIDWAY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM DOGS ↗
- Who funds ONE MORE WAVE SURF CORP ↗
- Who funds The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAVY LEAGUE OF THE US SAN DIEGO COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5000 Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LAKE CHAPALA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds VIA INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Country Friends · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Midway Foundation Inc · Padres Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Parker 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 San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary 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.