· Private foundation
The Bravo 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT MERCY | $50,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| RED CROSS OF SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
| OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
| EMILIO NARES FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $25,000 |
| OUTDOOR OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| WOMEN IN ANIMATION | $25,000 |
| PROYECTO PASTORAL AT DELORES MISSION | $25,000 |
| SAN MARCOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $15,000 |
| EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS | $10,000 |
| UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +91%
- OOOUTDOOR OUTREACH7× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +159%
- OCOrange County Rescue Mission Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UEUCSD EYE MOBILE FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CLCENTRO LAS OLASone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +6%
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.
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…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…
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…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
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.
To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…
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…
Green Dot Public Schools' mission is to help transform public education so that every child can be successful in college, leadership and life. Green Dot Public Schools manages the development of and supports the operation of high quality…
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 122 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN ANIMATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRLS LEADING GIRLS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS RISING ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS ↗
- Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Emilio Nares Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Freedom Writers Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds Pure Game ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds SAVING JANE INC ↗
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 · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bravo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bravo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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