· Private foundation
The Cynthia & George Weir Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE CYNTHIA & GEORGE WEIR FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Emmanuel Faith Community Church | $31,000 |
| California Center for the Arts | $7,500 |
| Neighborhood Health Care | $5,700 |
| Bold Foundation | $5,154 |
| Tierra Caliente Academy of Art | $5,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Greater San Dieg | $5,000 |
| Play as One | $5,000 |
| Foundation for His Ministry | $4,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,280 |
| Escondido Citizens for Safety Measu | $3,000 |
| Alternatives Medical Clinic | $3,000 |
| CRU | $3,000 |
| LOVE ESCO Inc | $3,000 |
| San Diego Prosperity Foundation | $1,021 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +83%
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +45%- ECEscondido Chamber of Commerce4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- PTPACIFIC THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -27%
- FOFOCUS ON THE FAMILYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- TEThe Escondido Charitable Foundationone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…
The San Diego Early Music Society (SDEMS) fosters the appreciation and performance of early music (music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods) in the greater San Diego area through concert presentations. SDEMS seeks to…
Unite all latino americans
The mission of the san diego history center is to preserve our region's history - tell the diverse story of our region's past, present, and future; educate and enrich our community; and foster civic pride.
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…
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
Our mission is to guide the development of proposed Sister City relationships, thereby strengthening their missions in the areas of cultural, educational, economic, and humanitarian relationships.
Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…
To promote stamp collecting
The universidad del sagrado corazon (sagrado) is an independent, nonprofit, catholic university, committed to the education of the whole person through strong foundation in the liberal arts. sagrado is part of puerto ricos oldest private,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Tierra Caliente Academy of Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 44 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PLAY AS ONE ↗
- Who funds Alternatives ↗
- Who funds TIERRA CALIENTE ACADEMY OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds The Bold Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Escondido Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds ESCONDIDO SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ESCONDIDO ARTS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ESCONDIDO HISTORY CENTER ↗
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 San Diego Foundation · East County Economic Development Council · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cynthia & George Weir Family 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.
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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