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The Country Friends

The organization's sole purpose is to raise money to support human care agencies with emphasis on those providing services to women, children, and the elderly for the purpose of helping people to help themselves.

$303k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$352kHealth$286kYouth Development$131kHousing & Shelter$96kFood & Nutrition$90kAnimals$50kEmployment$45kEducation$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $247,793 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $302,793 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $213k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$878k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES$18,000
PROMISES 2 KIDS$15,000
VOICE FOR OUR CITY CHOIR$15,000
GIRLS RISING$15,000
RISE UP INDUSTRIES$14,130
BE A FRIEND-IMPACT A LIFE$12,400
RITECARE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE$12,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA$11,763
EMILIO NARES$10,000
MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION$10,000
OLIVE WOOD GARDENS & LEARNING$10,000
GENERATE HOPE$10,000
SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH$10,000
A STEP BEYOND$10,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $12k → 7%WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 11%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%KID'S TURN: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%BURN INSTITUTE-SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%BURN INSTITUTE-SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $10k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $4k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $10k → 11%KIDS' TURN: $4k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $8k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $4k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%MANA DE SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL: $3k → 11%ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%HELEN WOODWARD: $4k → 11%OLIVE WOOD GARDENS & LEARNING: $10k → 11%OLIVE WOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF NORTH COAST: $4k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 11%LIGHT BRIDGE HOSPICE: $13k → 11%LIGHT BRIDGE HOSPICE: $5k → 11%MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE: $5k → 11%LIGHT BRIDGE HOSPICE: $5k → 11%ONCOLOGY & KIDS: $8k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $15k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $14k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $8k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 11%SHORELINE COMM SERVICES: $6k → 11%BORDER VIEW FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 11%MAMA'S KITCHEN: $6k → 11%MAMAS KITCHEN: $4k → 11%HANDSON SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$888k · 56 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
39

Total granted

$888k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+33%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • VH
    VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +24%
  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    5× · 2018–2022 · $37k · revenue +43%
  • MT
    Mitchell Thorp Foundation
    5× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +445%

Funded once

  • MR
    MAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -91%
  • LC
    LA COLONIA DE EDEN GARDENS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • RF
    REFUGE FOR WOMEN SOCAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Dreams for Change Inc

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.

Human Services
2
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
3
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
4
Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy
5
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

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…

Social Science
6
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
7
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
8
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
9
Hannahs Family Center

Hannahs Family Center envisions a world where strong families enable children to thrive and communities to prosper. Since 1993, we have helped San Diego families navigate significant adverse changes, trauma and loss. As experts in…

Education
10
Urban Street Angels Inc

Founded in 2012, urban street angels is a san diego native 501(c)3 attentive to supporting homeless youth through supportive housing, peer support, mentorship, mental health counseling, and job training initiatives, in order to develop a…

Religion
11
San Diego Kind Corporation

San diego kind corporation, a ca non profit organization, creates and develops housing and services for the low income elderly and also contributes to other low income senior service and housing projects.

Housing & Shelter
12
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Maya Relief Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%38%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/100
the rest of the field
15%
2,129/14,661

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.

04the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 106 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/97
Grantees still filing
73/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $46,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTERCasa De Amparo — $37,059 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoGENERATEHOPE INC — $31,500 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INCMitchell Thorp Foundation — $31,500 · Human ServicesMitchell Thorp FoundationRise Up Industries — $22,130 · Human ServicesRise Up IndustriesWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES — $18,000 · Human ServicesOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC — $15,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $13,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesMIRACLE BABIES — $12,000 · Human Services+15 more — $102,497 · Human Services+15 moreGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $26,000 · OtherINCLUDE AUTISM — $25,990 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $24,000 · OtherKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $20,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK — $19,300 · OtherELIZABETH HOSPICE — $18,650 · OtherMAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+46 more — $366,139 · Other+46 moreVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $51,013 · HealthVISTA HILL F…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $20,000 · HealthCENTER FOR C…PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $15,216 · HealthPALOMAR HEAL…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION — $12,400 · HealthLUCKY DUCK F…Emilio Nares Foundation — $11,500 · HealthEmilio Nares…CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL — $11,000 · HealthCONNECTMED I…Ronald McDonald House Global — $10,000 · HealthRonald McDon…+2 more — $6,500 · HealthREALITY CHANGERS — $24,988 · EducationREALITY C…CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION — $19,111 · EducationCALIFORNI…Think Dignity — $17,000 · EducationThink Dig…MANA DE SAN DIEGO — $10,000 · EducationMANA DE S…THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE — $10,000 · EducationTHE SAN M…Special Delivery San Diego — $10,000 · EducationSpecial D…MUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS — $5,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $24,000 · AnimalsSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $6,500 · AnimalsSAVING HORSES INC — $5,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $22,033 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterDoors of Change — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterA Step Beyond — $18,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVIA INTERNATIONAL — $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$355,186Other$520,079Health$137,629Education$100,099Animals$45,500Housing & Shelter$37,033Arts & Culture$36,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $51,013 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $46,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCasa De Amparo — $37,059 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC — $31,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMitchell Thorp Foundation — $31,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $26,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS — $24,988 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRise Up Industries — $22,130 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $22,033 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK — $19,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION — $19,111 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA Step Beyond — $18,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThink Dignity — $17,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC — $15,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $15,216 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLA COLONIA DE EDEN GARDENS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetThe Vision of Children — $14,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC — $13,625 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $13,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES — $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation — $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL — $11,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COUNTRY FRIENDS — $10,124 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRiding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMANA DE SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWALDEN FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSan Diego Brain Injury Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego — $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBurn Institute — $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…David C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…Pratt Memorial FundWalter J & Betty C Za…The Nordson Corporati…Sempra FoundationThe Parker Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA100.9× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker 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 Country Friends 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    48report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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