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Strauss Family 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 $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $70,000 |
| SD ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF SDIMP CNTY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $15,000 |
| PROJECT AWARE | $10,000 |
| KPBS RADIOPRODUCERS CLUB | $10,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $10,000 |
| FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MEXICAN DEVELPMENT | $7,500 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $7,100 |
| SD NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| WALDORF INSTITUTE OF SO CAL | $5,000 |
| WALDORF SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| OASIS INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $23k) 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +69%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +12%- SDSan Diego Womens Chorus6× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- SSSAVE STARLIGHT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +113%
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.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Oasis and the most unlike its peers is Save Starlight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Womens Chorus ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE STARLIGHT INC ↗
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: Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · 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 Strauss Family 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.
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.