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The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation at a glance

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The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp 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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$18MHuman Services$2.3MYouth Development$2.0MHealth$1.8MInternational$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEnvironment$960kAnimals$916kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.7M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$166M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATION$2,490,000
CATALYST PHILANTHROPY FUND$530,000
LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL$400,000
YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$250,000
WILDCOAST$150,000
SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
XERCES SOCIETY INC$95,000
EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION$95,000
EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC$85,000
FOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC$80,000
JESSIE REES FOUNDATION$60,000
RAPTOR RESOURCE PROJECT$60,000
SANTA MONICA BAY RESTORATION FOUNDATION$60,000
THE ECOLOGY CENTER$55,000
EMPOWERS AFRICA INC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA ESPERANZA PARA NINOS: $25k → 11%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $100k → 11%COPLEY-PRICE FAMILY YMCA: $160k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $20k → 11%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $250k → 11%RANCHO SANTA FE TEA3 FOUNDATION INC: $85k → 11%THORN: $200k → 14%NOAH HOMES INC: $150k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $250k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $50k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $20k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $20k → 11%IMPACT CUBED: $55k → 11%SAN DIEGO OASIS: $8k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $250k → 11%COPLEY-PRICE FAMILY YMCA: $250k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $190k → 11%COPLEY-PRICE FAMILY YMCA: $185k → 11%COPLEY-PRICE FAMILY YMCA: $115k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
CA
UT
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 61%.

The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 28 repeat orgs$8.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
43

Total granted

$19M
$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

89%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $895k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YO
    YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +89%
  • LO
    LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $900k · revenue +5%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of South County
    2× · 2020–2021 · $750k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2.3M
  • OV
    Ocean View Community Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -100% · 99% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
3
The Ocean Foundation

As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…

Environment
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment
7
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
8
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
9
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
10
Save the Sea Turtles International Dba One Ocean Conservation

We empower communities around the globe to protect sea turtles, corals, sharks, and the vital marine species and ecosystems they call home through hands-on conservation, education, and sustainable solutions. our team leads reef and beach…

Animals
11
Global Sanctuary for Elephants

See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…

Animals
12
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 84 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
49/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATION: $8,965,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATIONPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $3,300,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $2,300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+42 more: $3,637,360 · Other+42 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,800,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARI…Social Impact Fund: $550,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact FundCATALYST PHILANTHROPY FUND: $530,000 · PhilanthropyCATALYST PHILANTHRO…THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $310,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EMERIL LAGASSE …+2 more: $245,000 · PhilanthropyYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1,450,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF S…Casa De Amparo: $340,000 · Human ServicesCasa De A…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …THORN: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHORNNOAH HOMES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesNOAH HOME…EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $100,000 · Human Services+6 more: $247,500 · Human Services+6 moreSharp Healthcare Foundation: $700,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation: $210,000 · HealthStarkey Hearing Foundation: $200,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $75,000 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $7,500 · HealthBoys & Girls Clubs of South County: $750,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentFestival of Children Foundation: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $900,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $93,350 · EducationTHE HOOPER COLLECTIVE INC: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $105,000 · EducationOcean View Community Foundation: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRO SHALOM TIJUANA INC: $134,350 · Recreation & Sports
Other$18,202,360Philanthropy$5,435,000Human Services$2,787,500Health$1,492,500Youth Development$1,455,000Education$1,398,350Recreation & Sports$1,134,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATION: $8,965,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FUND: $3,300,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1,450,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOcean View Community Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $900,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of South County: $750,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $700,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $550,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCATALYST PHILANTHROPY FUND: $530,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $500,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $340,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCOAST: $300,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $285,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELLEN FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $210,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHORN: $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $185,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Legacy Cellar Foundation: $165,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTRO SHALOM TIJUANA INC: $134,350 over 2y, 48% of budgetSANTA MONICA BAY RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRAPTOR RESOURCE PROJECT: $120,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFestival of Children Foundation: $95,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $95,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $95,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $95,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $93,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $90,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRancho Santa Fe Tea 3 Foundation: $85,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC: $80,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOK Foundation: $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE CONSERVANCY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetAdopt the Arts Foundation: $80,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGRANDMA LULUS TABLE: $68,500 over 3y, 87% of budgetONE GENERATION ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Stanley E Hanson …Living Legacy Foundat…Sempra FoundationThe San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…G Harbaugh FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…Rancho Santa Fe Found…David C Copley Founda…Price Philanthropies …The Nordson Corporati…
The Stanley E Hanson FoundationCA28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Stanley E Hanson Foundation · Living Legacy Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · G Harbaugh Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home