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The Ga Foster Legacy 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $595k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAINTED TURTLE | $275,000 |
| ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES | $250,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OC | $250,000 |
| FOSTERALL | $250,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO | $250,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $125,000 |
| OCEAN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $95,000 |
| TREE SAN DIEGO | $75,000 |
| WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k 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
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION2× · 2017–2018 · $915k · revenue +125%
- AHARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES3× · 2023–2025 · $800k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- HMHENRY MAYO NEWHALL MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +13%
- SDSAN DIEGO WILDLIFE ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $148k
- SDSAN DIEGO NEW CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Resources for Recovery Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 40 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ARARAT HOME OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Center ↗
- Who funds FOSTERALL ↗
- Who funds PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds TREE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HENRY MAYO NEWHALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CAREER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CRAFT COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Santa Clarita Valley Committee On Aging ↗
- Who funds San Diego Film Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BLISSFUL SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Resources For Recovery Inc ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ga Foster Legacy 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.
- Resources for Recovery Inc — 68% 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.
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