· Private foundation
The George P Lauren 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $25,000 |
| LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS | $25,000 |
| GIRLS RISING ABOVE CHILD | $25,000 |
| ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO | $15,000 |
| MCALISTER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| MISSION BEACH WOMAN'S CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- JIJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH4× · 2022–2025 · $68k · revenue +23%
- MIMCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +37%
- EOELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TATHE ARK ANTIQUESone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +9%
- WFWHITAKER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue +33% · 26% of their budget
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF GERMANS FROM RUone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Our main goal is to take in and spay or neuter feral, homeless or abandoned cats of san diego county and to provide for their medical and shelter needs until they can be adopted into permanent homes or in the case of feral cats, return…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.
Friends of Orange County's Homeless Pets (FOCHP) is a licensed 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to make homeless and unwanted pets more adoptable and provide them the opportunity to find lifelong families. This mission…
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
Providing shelter for domestic animals, through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and sanctuary and act as an advocate for the humane treatment of animals. to educate the public regarding the responsibilities of pet ownership, as well as…
Feeding the homeless population in san d
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Carson Cats is dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from the 6 Los Angeles County shelters, specifically Carson Shelter.
Organization dedicated to saving the lives of shelter animals in san diego and surrounding counties. the organization provides medical attention and training for animals with medical, behavioral and emotional needs. the organzation also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shoreline Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Whitaker Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 TOBY WELLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICANS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MCALISTER INSTITUTE FOR TREATMENT & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE ARK ANTIQUES ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WHITAKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION BEACH WOMENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Doors of Change ↗
- Who funds ONCOLOGY AND KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY POSSE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STREET VET ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FERAL CAT COALITION ↗
- Who funds Future Construction Leaders 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: David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The JEM Project · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Lucky Duck Foundation · The Country Friends
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 George P Lauren 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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