· Private foundation
The Harriet E Pfleger 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–50k14 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $929k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $160,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| WORKSHOP FOR WARRIORS | $100,000 |
| OCEANA INC | $100,000 |
| CASA DE AMPARO | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER | $79,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $60,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PARADISE DREAMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $50,000 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- WFWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +84%
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +72%
- CDCasa De Amparo8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SSSCI Special Fundone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -100%
- TRTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
- RBROLF BENIRSCHKE'S LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $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.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paradise Dreams Animal Sanctuary. 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 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds Paradise Dreams Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCI Special Fund ↗
- Who funds The Vision of Children ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LIFE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK 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: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Country Friends · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Harriet E Pfleger 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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