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Ameritino Foundation (The)

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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$95kYouth Development$62kHealth$42kHuman Services$38kFood & Nutrition$30kCivil Rights$25kHousing & Shelter$24kRecreation & Sports$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$9,000
RANCHO BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL$7,500
ELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$5,000
DOORS OF CHANGE$5,000
SAN MARCOS MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,000
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
EMILIO NARES FOUNDATION$5,000
SAN MARCOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
CARDIFF SOCCER LEAGUE$4,000
SOLANA BEACH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$3,500
LONGMONT HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$2,500
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
SAN ELIJO MIDDLE SCHOOL$1,500
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$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 (FY17–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GALILEE CENTER: $5k → 11%GALILEE CENTER: $4k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $6k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $3k → 11%STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART: $3k → 11%GENTLY HUGGED: $2k → 11%YWCA OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%NORTH COUNTY IMMIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP CENTER (NCICC): $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
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$313k · 29 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
39

Total granted

$313k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+25%

Still filing today

69%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +157%
  • MK
    MAMA'S KITCHEN
    5× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +103%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN (MEXICO)
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • BT
    Boys to Men Mentoring Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +69%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS (UVALDE FUND)
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

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La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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2
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
3
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
4
Border Angels

We advocate for human rights humane immigration reform and social justice. Our efforts aim to reduce fatalities along the US-Mexico border by educating and assisting communities on both sides. Our services include educational programs…

Human Services
5
Southern California Immigration Project

Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.

International
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates of San Luis Obispo County Inc

The mission of San Luis Obispo CASA (SLO CASA) is to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children within the dependency court system. CASA recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers who advocate for this vulnerable…

Civil Rights
7
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
8
Child Advocates of Contra Costa County

The court appointed special advocates (casa) program recruits, trains, and supports volunteer advocates to support abused and neglected children during the court process, to help every child find a permanent home and complete their…

Civil Rights
9
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
10
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
11
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
12
Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.

Crime & Legal

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 Humane World for Animals Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr10%11%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr10%10%35–55yr12%24%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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
15%
11,033/72,085

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

49 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. 49 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RANCHO BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL — $20,250 · OtherRANCHO BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOLSOLANA BEACH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $19,000 · OtherSOLANA BEACH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $17,500 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL — $17,450 · OtherSAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOLBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INCCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $12,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $9,000 · OtherCasa Cornelia Legal Services — $9,000 · OtherELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $13,000 · OtherNorth County LGBTQ Resource Center — $9,000 · Other+37 more — $117,050 · Other+37 moreHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $28,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY I…Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to M…STARPAL — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARPAL+2 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $8,500 · Human ServicesGALILEE CENTER INC — $8,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $4,000 · Human ServicesSTRAIGHT FROM THE HEART INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $2,500 · Human ServicesGENTLY HUGGED — $2,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO CITIZENSHIP — $2,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $1,500 · Human ServicesMAMA'S KITCHEN — $15,500 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $14,500 · Food & NutritionCARDIFF SOCCER LEAGUE INC — $14,500 · PhilanthropyHogar Infantil Inc — $7,500 · PhilanthropySan Diego Council on Literacy — $3,000 · PhilanthropyDoors of Change — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBORDER KINDNESS — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC — $1,500 · Housing & ShelterEmilio Nares Foundation — $13,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $1,500 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Other$258,250Youth Development$36,500Human Services$32,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Philanthropy$25,000Housing & Shelter$23,500Health$18,000

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 budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN — $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDoors of Change — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIFF SOCCER LEAGUE INC — $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation — $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth County LGBTQ Resource Center — $9,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $8,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGALILEE CENTER INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE — $8,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHogar Infantil Inc — $7,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Mexico — $6,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCARITAS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF WOMEN DBA WOMANS CLUB OF VISTA — $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Council on Literacy — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBilateral Safety Corridor Coalition — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAIGHT FROM THE HEART INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTARPAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBORDER KINDNESS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION DBA ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCARLSBAD UNITED FC dba CITY SOCCER CLUB — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN MARCOS YOUTH SOCCER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANSIDE SOCCER CLUB — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $250 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…Jewish Community Foun…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Nordson Corporati…The Bravo FoundationBoys and Girls Aid So…The Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Sempra FoundationThe Cushman Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA45.7× affinity23 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Bravo Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra 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 Ameritino Foundation (The) 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

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How do I get to Ameritino Foundation (The)?

Find your warmest path to Ameritino Foundation (The) 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 73 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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