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The Blanchard 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATER MISSION | $5,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| JACOBS & CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| MIRACLE MESSAGES | $999 |
| THE ASHER HOUSE | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| THE FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC | $500 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| SEND ME ON VACATIONTERI O'ROURKE | $350 |
| OVATION THEATRE | $250 |
| OVATION THEATRE | $250 |
| SPCA INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
| ESCONDIDO CREEK CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS | $200 |
| COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA | $150 |
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 (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 19 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- NCNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +23%
- BBBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +134%
- ICInterfaith Community Services Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- RBRANCHO BERNARDO COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- USUSD SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
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…
Onelegacy saves and heals lives through organ, eye and tissue donation, comforts the families we serve, and inspires our communities to donate life.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Association for Suicide Prevention. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 64 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 SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Medicine of the Soul Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ovation Theatre ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET MONDAY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LOTUS RESCUE & SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE MESSAGES ↗
- Who funds International Association for Suicide Prevention ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Umbrella Ministries ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Blanchard 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 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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