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Stern Leichter 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL ROOTS FARM | $50,000 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE SOLEL | $15,000 |
| NORTH COAST REP THEATER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KPBS | $10,000 |
| PRO KIDS FIRST TEE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE CALIFORNIAS | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CAMP BOB WALDORF | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NEW HAVEN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% 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
- HOHILLEL OF SAN DIEGO5× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +57%
- CRCOASTAL ROOTS FARM5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +112%
- ICIMPACT CUBED3× · 2021–2023 · $145k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2023 · $100k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +21%- HHHELPING HANDS SENIOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +359%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
San diego hunger coalition works collaboratively with community partners to create equitable access to food assistance through research, education, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. 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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 59 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 HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
- Who funds Sunbird Initiative ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS SENIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds New Haven Youth and Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGUITO RIVER VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Leap to Success ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Survivor Mitzvah Project ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
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 · The San Diego Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Melvin Garb Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Isakow Foundation · Jewish Federation of San Diego County · Spielman Family Foundation · The Cushman 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 Stern Leichter 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.
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
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.
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