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The Jasada Foundation at a glance

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The Jasada 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$85kArts & Culture$76kEducation$53kHealth$41kFood & Nutrition$36kEnvironment$35kInternational$35kHuman Services$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$386k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
THEATRE & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$5,000
OLD GLOBE THEATRE$5,000
CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$5,000
TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE$4,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO$2,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$2,500
REALITY CHANGERS$2,500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$2,500
MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC$2,500
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$2,500
DIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,200
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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CCAI DBA CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CCAI DBA CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CCAI DBA CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%CCAI DBA CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%CCAI DBA CHINESE CHILDREN ADOPTION INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$485k · 26 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
1

Total granted

$485k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+65%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +110%
  • TA
    THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • C
    CCAI
    8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO FIRE-RESCUE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +65%
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
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
2
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
3
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
6
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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7
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
8
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
9
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
10
The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture
11
San Diego Junior Theatre

San Diego Junior Theatre (Junior Theatre) was incorporated in 1948 as a nonprofit corporation and is the oldest youth theatre in the nation, offering affordable camps, classes, and outreach programs for children ages 3-18; as well as six…

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12
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUND…OLD GLOBE THEATRE: $26,000 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRESan Diego Womens Chorus: $8,000 · Arts & CultureSan Diego Womens Cho…POWAY PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: $7,394 · Arts & CulturePOWAY PERFORMING ART…DIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDIVERSIONARY THEATRE…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBE…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC+1 more: $2,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationPACIFIC RIDGE S…REALITY CHANGERS: $10,000 · EducationREALITY CHANGER…CCAI: $40,000 · Human ServicesCCAIJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…Feeding America: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $13,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS-ON-W…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 · HealthPLANNED P…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONME…Individual grant recipient: $9,600 · OtherIndividual gra…Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $7,000 · OtherElectronic Fro…CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIR…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVER…SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $8,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO HUMA…WEE COMPANIONS: $8,000 · OtherWEE COMPANIONSSCDRINC: $4,000 · OtherSCDRINC+1 more: $1,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$89,394Civil Rights$84,000Education$67,500Human Services$60,000Food & Nutrition$43,500Health$40,000Environment$40,000Other$61,600

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 budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCCAI: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSan Diego Womens Chorus: $8,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEE COMPANIONS: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPOWAY PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: $7,394 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCDRINC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATIO PLAYHOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO FIRE-RESCUE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CCAI ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
  • Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
  • Who funds San Diego Womens Chorus ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds WEE COMPANIONS ↗
  • Who funds POWAY PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCDRINC ↗
  • Who funds POLICING EQUITY ↗
  • Who funds PATIO PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO FIRE-RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Jasada Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jasada Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 27 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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