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Stafford Memorial Tr Found Tua

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.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$203kHuman Services$136kYouth Development$115kEducation$49kFood & Nutrition$48kCrime & Legal$38kHousing & Shelter$38kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH$10,000
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$10,000
HOME START INCORPORATED$10,000
COMMUNITY HOUSINGWORKS$7,500
RIDE ABOVE DISABILITY THERAPEUTIC RIDING$6,500
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO$5,000
PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC$5,000
SAN DIEGO CRAFT COLLECTIVE$5,000
OUTSIDE THE LENS$5,000
SAN MARCOS PROMISE$5,000
OASIS INSTITUTE$5,000
ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO$5,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CA CHAP 3$2,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 9%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $8k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $8k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $5k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $13k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $8k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $8k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $8k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $3k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $8k → 11%THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $8k → 11%THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO OASIS: $10k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$597k · 26 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$597k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+1%

Still filing today

96%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    6× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue +53%
  • JI
    JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +73%
  • SM
    St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CL
    California Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +9%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -89%

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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
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
3
United Way of San Diego County

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

Philanthropy
4
Ucp San Diego

The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…

Education
5
Access to Independence of San Diego Inc

Access to independence promotes full participation of people with disabilities, to help maintain, sustain, and maximize independence.

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6
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
7
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
8
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

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

Housing & Shelter
9
The Arc of San Diego

The arc of san diego supports and empowers persons with disabilities to achieve their life goals.

Human Services
10
Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy
11
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc

To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…

Human Services
12
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is American Academy of Pediatrics. 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 backsteadyHistoric District Revitaliz…Youth Sports LeaguesAsian Ethnic Cultural Organ…Trauma Recovery SupportChristian Ministry SupportFraternal & Sorority Organi…Disability and Vulnerable P…Regional Business Advocacy
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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr12%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 25% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
14%
2,129/14,714

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

47 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. 47 of the 51 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
25/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NOAH HOMES INC — $38,000 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INCCasa De Amparo — $30,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoSAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $22,500 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY …SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INCSAN DIEGO OASIS — $20,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OASISELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $15,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGOAssistance League of Greater San Diego — $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $7,500 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR …Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Men Mento…ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentACCESS YOUTH ACAD…READING LEGACIES — $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentREADING LEGACIESOUTSIDE THE LENS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTSIDE THE LENSBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $45,000 · OtherSt Madeleine Sophies Center IncFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN — $15,000 · OtherFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SANGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 · OtherALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $10,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO — $10,000 · OtherFern Street Community Arts Inc — $9,000 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $27,500 · OtherFEEDING SAN DIEGOHOME START INC — $17,500 · OtherHOME START INCSan Diego Parks Foundation — $12,500 · OtherCalifornia Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue — $10,000 · OtherELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $14,000 · OtherELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE+12 more — $58,410 · Other+12 moreSCRIPPS HEALTH — $81,600 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHRIDE ABOVE DISABILITY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $6,500 · HealthRIDE ABOVE DISA…FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $5,000 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $4,700 · HealthTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE — $25,000 · EducationSpecial Delivery San Diego — $5,000 · EducationNorth County Education Foundation Inc — $5,000 · EducationBRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE — $5,000 · EducationVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $32,500 · Civil RightsSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT — $30,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$188,000Youth Development$114,500Other$238,910Health$102,800Education$40,000Civil Rights$32,500Community Improvement$30,000

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 budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $81,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC — $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCasa De Amparo — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOME START INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREADING LEGACIES — $14,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $14,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSan Diego Parks Foundation — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUTSIDE THE LENS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAssistance League of Greater San Diego — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFern Street Community Arts Inc — $9,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE ABOVE DISABILITY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $6,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorth County Education Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE — $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO CRAFT COLLECTIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $4,910 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $4,700 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…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…French Fund Samuel Ka…Masserini Maurice J T…Price Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…Billingsley Foundatio…David C Copley Founda…The Cushman FoundationPratt Memorial FundThe Nordson Corporati…
The San Diego FoundationCA62.6× affinity32 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Masserini Maurice J Tua · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Nordson Corporation 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 Stafford Memorial Tr Found Tua 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 51 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.

    Source object · view filing

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