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The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Foundation Of San Diego, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $106k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k23 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEACREST VILLAGE RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES | $24,500 |
| JEWISH FEDRATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (MCASD) | $11,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $10,799 |
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| KPBS | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,500 |
| LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,450 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,250 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $1,250 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES (RACHEL'S WOMEN'S CENTER) | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2021, 31 since wound down. Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 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
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $63k · revenue +38%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2017–2021 · $61k · revenue +374%
- TATHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE4× · 2017–2020 · $49k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- UFUCSD FOUNDATION - MOORES CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LJLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -31%
- FPFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
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…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
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.
Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…
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 drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Insite. 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 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 76 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Dr Seuss 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 The Arthur & Barbara Bloom 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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