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Sanders Tech-Ed 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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$127kEnvironment$105kEducation$87kPhilanthropy$24kCommunity Improvement$20kInternational$17kYouth Development$12kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$361
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION$6,200
AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION$5,000
VETERANS ASSOCIATION NORTH COUNTY$5,000
RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION OF CARLSBAD BY THE SEA INC$5,000
VETERANS ASSOCIATION NORTH COUNTY$5,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$3,000
RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION OF CARLSBAD BY THE SEA INC$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$2,500
CARLSBAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$2,500
TURNING POINT USA INC$2,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$2,000
AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - SAN ANTONIO$2,000
AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION$2,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%A SENSE OF HOME: $3k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $500 → 14%FOR THEIR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST: $1k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST: $1k → 11%FOR THEIR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION I: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
SC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$378k · 24 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
23

Total granted

$378k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AH
    AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +176%
  • VA
    VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +286%
  • RA
    RESIDENTS ASSOC OF CARLSBAD BY THE SEA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SA
    SISU ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -41%
  • CF
    CARLSBAD FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
2
Carlthorp School

Carlthorp school is an independent, nonprofit day school for children in grades k-6. carlthorp school provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes traditional values, disciplined work…

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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5
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
6
United Way of San Diego County

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

Philanthropy
7
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
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
10
Junior League of San Diego Inc

Junior league of san diego, inc. is part of an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. jlsd…

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11
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad

To provide activities and experiences that enrich the lives of young people, inspiring and enabling them to reach their full potential.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arlington Cal Ripken Babe Ruth. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,932

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION — $104,851 · OtherAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATIONCARLSBAD CHAMBER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,500 · OtherCARLSBAD CHAMBER COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $7,500 · Other+32 more — $65,871 · Other+32 moreVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY — $85,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS ASSOCIATION …UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF L…LabRats San Diego — $10,000 · EducationLabRats San Die…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER …RESIDENTS ASSOC OF CARLSBAD BY THE SEA — $33,500 · PhilanthropyRESIDENTS ASSO…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $17,950 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO …UNITED CHARITABLE — $6,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CHARITA…+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST — $3,500 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOME — $3,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOR THEIR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · Human ServicesLeap to Success — $7,300 · Arts & CultureWords Alive — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKids for Peace — $10,500 · International
Other$207,722Public Benefit$85,500Education$62,500Philanthropy$57,950Human Services$14,000Arts & Culture$12,300International$10,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAGUA HEDIONDA LAGOON FOUNDATION — $104,851 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH COUNTY — $85,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENTS ASSOC OF CARLSBAD BY THE SEA — $33,500 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $17,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARLSBAD CHAMBER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetKids for Peace — $10,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLabRats San Diego — $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLeap to Success — $7,300 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOROPTIMIST OCEANSIDE CARLSBAD — $6,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWords Alive — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST — $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJunior League of Northern Virginia — $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetA SENSE OF HOME — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THEIR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetClemson Paw Partners — $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFront Porch Communities and Services — $721 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON CAL RIPKEN BABE RUTH — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARLSBAD YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFront Porch Communities Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Nordson Corporati…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Cushman FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…
The San Diego FoundationCA23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment 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 Sanders Tech-Ed 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines