· Private foundation
The Conrad Prebys Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k101 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $991k
- $50k–250k185 grants · $22M
- $250k+66 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC SAN DIEGO FOR THE DEPOT (UC SD FDTN) | $3,000,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $3,000,000 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FDTN (KPBS) | $1,600,000 |
| THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION SDSU | $1,500,000 |
| SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 | $1,000,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $1,000,000 |
| NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER | $750,000 |
| LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY | $750,000 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $750,000 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FDTN (KPBS) | $622,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $500,000 |
| WORLD OF WORK FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO | $500,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $8.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
264 repeat relationships — 163 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down; 114 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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 ASSOCIATION5× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +35%
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +19%
WGBH Educational Foundation4× · 2019–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- OGOLD GLOBE THEATREone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +11%
- QBQUAIL BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC (DBA SAN DIEGO BOTANIC GARDEN)one grant, 2022 · $384k
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANSone grant, 2021 · $360k · revenue -36%
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.
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
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.
To advance workforce and talent development within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") sectors by fostering excellence in education, expanding access to opportunities, and delivering transformative resources to…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kupanda. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
400 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. 400 of the 503 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Mingei International Inc ↗
- Who funds Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL INNOVATIONS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds San Diego Opera Association ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds World of Work Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 ↗
- Who funds NTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
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 Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd
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 Conrad Prebys 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.
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% 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.