· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| FATHER JOE'S VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,500 |
| KPBS | $1,500 |
| LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,450 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $1,250 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,250 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| ATHENAEUM MUSIC & ARTS LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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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.
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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.
How this is measured
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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