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San Diego Tijuana World Design Capital 2024
Wdc is a year long celebration of design in our community and also an opportunity to use the power of design to transform our community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $550,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $564,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,600 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTALLATION GALLERY | $75,000 |
| CASA FAMILIAR | $75,000 |
| THE DESIGN ACADEMY INC DBA INTERSECTION INC | $75,000 |
| OURWORLDS INC | $75,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| BLANKET SOUNDS (PREVIOUSLY THE ART OF JAZZ) | $25,000 |
| SAN DIEGO JAZZ VENTURES INC | $25,000 |
| THE DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| ART PRODUCE | $25,000 |
| OUTSIDE THE LENS | $25,000 |
| POETIC JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| BLINDSPOT COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| SAN DIEGO CRAFT COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| PROJECT BLANK | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL | $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 (FY24–24, $85k) 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.
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 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 Mission of Uprise Theatre is to use art and activist lawyering to disrupt systems of oppression and reclaim power with the people. The Vision of Uprise Theatre is that now will be the time in history in which all peoples are treated by…
ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…
Education on the arts through class projects, in particular, graffitti art.
Unite all latino americans
Vanguard Culture is a volunteer-powered, inclusive nonprofit dedicated to advancing San Diegos Creative Industries. We provide quality arts journalism, cutting edge events, professional development that create arts jobs, bring diverse…
Indian Dance Training Center (IDTC) is a community development organizationaimed at empowering the youth through cultural dance training of traditional SouthAsian dance styles as well as classical theater. IDTC provides trainings,…
Advocating for Human-Centered Design as a regional approach to improve economic, social, and civic life in our community.Design Forward Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to leveraging the power of design to drive social impact.…
The Latina Dance Project, a collaborative ensemble of multidisciplinary artists, explores through performances--physical, musical, and visual--controversial issues impacting the global community. The companys projects create experiences…
To present high quality theatrical productions by serving as a cultural hub for historically under-represented and under-served residents of chula vista
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Blank and the most unlike its peers is Outside the Lens. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds INSTALLATION GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CASA FAMILIAR INC ↗
- Who funds Art Produce ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE THE LENS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO JAZZ VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds California Lawyers for the Arts ↗
- Who funds BLACK SAN DIEGO EMPOWERING OUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds POETIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Blindspot Collective ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project BLANK ↗
- Who funds THE BERRY GOOD FOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CRAFT COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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 · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tijuana World Design Capital 2024 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.