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Scott & Elizabeth V Christensen Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$185k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$601kEducation$431kHuman Services$65kAnimals$17kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$7kArts & Culture$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kPhilanthropy$2kOther$112k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Just in Time for Foster Youth$120,000
Palomar College Foundation$30,000
San Diego Mesa College Foundation$5,000
San Diego City College Foundation$5,000
Miramar College Foundation Inc$5,000
Shelter to Soldier$5,000
San Diego Continuing Education Foun$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Doors of Change$2,000
Fire Foundation of Denver$2,000
Navigators$1,000
The Resource Center$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $65k) 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.

area typical 8%Rise Up Industries: $15k → 11%Rise Up Industries: $15k → 11%Rise Up Industries: $15k → 11%Rise Up Industries: $10k → 11%Rise Up Industries: $5k → 11%Rise Up Industries: $5k → 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
IA
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
HI
TX

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +172% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+172%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • JI
    JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $598k · revenue +209%
  • PC
    Palomar College Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +6%
  • RU
    Rise Up Industries
    6× · 2018–2023 · $65k · revenue +441%

Funded once

  • SM
    SECOND MILE HAITIgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +142%
  • FF
    FACE Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • PW
    PETERS WORK
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -29%

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
Dreams for Change Inc

Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.

Human Services
2
Southwestern College Foundation

Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.

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3
San Diego Christian College

San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.

Education
4
University of San Diego

The university of san diego is a contemporary catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts and anchored along an international border, advancing academic excellence to create a more inclusive, sustainable and hopeful world.

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5
Project Street Vet

Project Street Vet empowers veterinary teams to deliver professional, non-judgmental medical care & support to pet families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability.

Animals
6
Student Lunchbox Inc

Student LunchBox, Inc. (SLB) is a charitable organization established in 2020 to empower college excellence through comprehensive basic needs support. Using innovative resource recovery initiatives, SLB addresses food insecurity and hunger…

Food & Nutrition
7
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs

Combat veteran-founded and operated Semper K9s mission is to enhance the quality of life for wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families by providing them with custom-trained mental health mobility service dogs. Using…

Public Benefit
8
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
9
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
10
Destination Home Sv co Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Destination: home's mission is to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in santa clara county.

Housing & Shelter
11
Canines With a Cause

The mission of Canines With a Cause is to harness the untapped potential of shelter dogs to heal emotional and psychological wounds, provide unconditional love, support and companionship, and give a new leash on life to those in need…

Animals
12
Disabled Veterans Charities Inc

To assist the disabled and needy veterans, their widows, and their dependents with an emphasis on eliminating homelessness

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter to Soldier Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%42%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%69%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr13%8%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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,950

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

27 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. 27 of the 35 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $598,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH+1 more — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentREALITY CHANGERS — $140,000 · EducationREALITY CHANGERSBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE — $130,000 · EducationBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTEPalomar College Foundation — $84,000 · EducationPalomar College FoundationThe San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation — $30,000 · EducationThe San Diego College of Continuing Ed…Miramar College Foundation Inc — $30,000 · EducationMiramar College Foundation Inc+4 more — $16,500 · EducationSAN DIEGO MESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO …SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO …Individual grant recipient — $14,500 · OtherIndividual…Individual grant recipient — $13,500 · OtherIndividual…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $6,000 · OtherFACE Foundation — $5,000 · OtherARTSBUSXPRESS — $6,000 · Other+8 more — $15,971 · Other+8 moreRise Up Industries — $65,000 · Human ServicesSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC — $7,000 · AnimalsWOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $6,500 · AnimalsPAWS OF WAR INC — $2,500 · AnimalsSCRATCH MY BELLY INC — $1,000 · AnimalsSECOND MILE HAITI — $10,000 · HealthTHE RESOURCE CENTER FOR PREGNANCY & PERSONAL HEALTH — $1,000 · HealthDoors of Change — $4,500 · Housing & ShelterSTEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR — $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Youth Development$600,500Education$430,500Other$120,971Human Services$65,000Animals$17,000Health$11,000Housing & Shelter$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $598,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS — $140,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE — $130,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPalomar College Foundation — $84,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetRise Up Industries — $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe San Diego College of Continuing Education Foundation — $30,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO MESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMiramar College Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSECOND MILE HAITI — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJULIAN PATHWAYS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED PAW PROJECT — $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTSBUSXPRESS — $6,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDoors of Change — $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPETERS WORK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWarrior Dog Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPING STONES OF WINDSOR — $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFIRE FOUNDATION OF DENVER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $1,971 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRATCH MY BELLY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RESOURCE CENTER FOR PREGNANCY & PERSONAL HEALTH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…David C Copley Founda…The Parker FoundationAlliance Healthcare F…Walter J & Betty C Za…Leichtag FoundationFoundation for Califo…Price Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…
The San Diego FoundationCA24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe 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 Scott & Elizabeth V Christensen Charitable 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Scott & Elizabeth V Christensen Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Scott & Elizabeth V Christensen Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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