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The Harriet E Pfleger Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$2.7MEmployment$2.1MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$1.6MEnvironment$1.0MRecreation & Sports$375kYouth Development$165kEducation$118kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $929k
$40,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST$160,000
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$130,000
OCEANA INC$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
WORKSHOP FOR WARRIORS$100,000
CASA DE AMPARO$100,000
RANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER$79,000
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$60,000
PARADISE DREAMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$50,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
SAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$40,000
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$35,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA DE AMPARO: $300k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $75k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $75k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $25k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $25k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $25k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $25k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $25k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OR
WY
IN
NJ
CA
CO
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 28 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
8

Total granted

$11M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
-42%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEmploymentEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WF
    WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +84%
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SS
    SCI Special Fund
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -100%
  • TR
    THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -42%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
2
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
3
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Children's Healthcare of California

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…

Health
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
8
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
9
Ochsner Clinic Foundation

We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.

Health
10
City of Hope

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

Health
11
Community Medical Centers Inc

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.

Health
12
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $1,182,723 · OtherUS FRIENDS OF THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TR…Individual grant recipient: $900,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $612,000 · OtherRANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INCSAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $364,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $360,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $312,252 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+21 more: $1,065,348 · Other+21 moreWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,088,334 · EmploymentWORKSHOPS FOR WARRI…+1 more: $10,000 · EmploymentSCRIPPS HEALTH: $1,075,805 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI M…CHOC FOUNDATION: $175,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATIO…HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthCasa De Amparo: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANI…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATH…OCEANA INC: $1,007,451 · EnvironmentOCEANA IN…SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $315,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $250,000 · AnimalsParadise Dreams Animal Sanctuary: $200,000 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · AnimalsPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $150,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,796,323Employment$2,098,334Health$1,550,805Human Services$1,500,000Environment$1,007,451Animals$815,000Recreation & Sports$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $2,088,334 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $1,075,805 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $1,007,451 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $1,000,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $612,000 over 9y, 57% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $315,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $300,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $250,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetParadise Dreams Animal Sanctuary: $200,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC: $150,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetURBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $140,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $107,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTERI Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Vision of Children: $68,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR LIFE CHANGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN AREA SCHOOL FOR DYSLEXICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LIFE CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rancho Santa Fe Found…The San Diego Foundat…The Country FriendsSempra FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Harriet E Pfleger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harriet E Pfleger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Harriet E Pfleger Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Harriet E Pfleger Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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