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The Mirandon Foundation for Hope Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$159kHealth$36kInternational$33kRecreation & Sports$11kEmployment$7kAnimals$6kPublic Benefit$4kEducation$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$678k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COUNTRY FRIENDS INC$8,500
RIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND STRENGTHS$7,000
MIRACLE BABIES$5,000
THE COUNTRY FRIENDS INC$5,000
LIONS TIGERS & BEARS$3,500
ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO$2,500
THE VISION OF CHILDREN FOUNDATION$1,400
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MIRACLE BABIES: $12k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $11k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $10k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $7k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $4k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $3k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $3k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $1k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%SAVVY GIVING BY DESIGN INC: $5k → 11%SAVVY GIVING BY DESIGN INC: $3k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$207k · 11 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$207k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-26%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalPublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

  • TC
    THE COUNTRY FRIENDS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +26%
  • EO
    ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +36%
  • SI
    Soroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218
    5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • VG
    VISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -60%
  • TD
    THE DORIS A HOWELL FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS HEALTH Rgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +49%
  • MARCH OF DIMES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -41%

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

04Your field

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.

1
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
2
Southern California Equine Foundation Inc

Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses

Animals
3
Curebound

The organization's mission is to provide funding for the best cancer research ideas in san diego. all proceeds from curebound stay in san diego to fund innovative and collaborative cancer research.

Health
4
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
5
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
6
Special Equestrians Inc

Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.

Human Services
7
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
10
The Hemophilia Assoc of San Diego County

The association was founded to provide programs for individuals with hemophilia.

11
Access to Independence of San Diego Inc

Access to independence promotes full participation of people with disabilities, to help maintain, sustain, and maximize independence.

12
Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Savvy Giving By Design Inc. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIRACLE BABIES — $75,800 · Human ServicesMIRACLE BABIESELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $23,500 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGOSavvy Giving By Design Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesSavvy Giving By Design IncTHE COUNTRY FRIENDS — $44,500 · OtherTHE COUNTRY FRIENDSThe Vision of Children — $17,900 · OtherThe Vision of ChildrenRiding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths — $10,500 · OtherRiding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Streng…RAY OF SUNSHINE EQUESTRIAN THERAPY — $10,200 · OtherRAY OF SUNSHINE EQUESTRIAN THERAPYRANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $7,000 · OtherRANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INCCreating First Impressons Inc — $6,500 · OtherCreating First Impressons IncTHE DORIS A HOWELL FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS HEALTH R — $3,500 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherVISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT — $17,000 · InternationalSoroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218 — $15,900 · Crime & LegalLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS — $3,500 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $2,000 · AnimalsMARCH OF DIMES INC — $3,000 · HealthEPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $1,500 · HealthSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Public BenefitHANNAHS FAMILY CENTER — $550 · Education
Human Services$107,300Other$101,100International$17,000Crime & Legal$15,900Animals$5,500Health$4,500Public Benefit$4,000Education$550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIRACLE BABIES — $75,800 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE COUNTRY FRIENDS — $44,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $23,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Vision of Children — $17,900 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVISIONS GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT — $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSoroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218 — $15,900 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetRiding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths — $10,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAY OF SUNSHINE EQUESTRIAN THERAPY — $10,200 over 4y, 33% of budgetSavvy Giving By Design Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCreating First Impressons Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DORIS A HOWELL FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS HEALTH R — $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIBRARY GUILD OF RANCHO SANTA FE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHANNAHS FAMILY CENTER — $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego FoundationCA26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Kerr Family Foundation · The Country Friends · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Mirandon Foundation for Hope Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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