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The Pacific View 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.

$801k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$747k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.2MCivil Rights$230kArts & Culture$214kHuman Services$196kAnimals$115kCommunity Improvement$35kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+1 grant · $747k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VASSAR COLLEGE$746,511
UC REGENTS$55,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES$35,000
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF US$25,000
HELIX HIGH FOUNDATION$20,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$20,000
LA JOLLA KIWANIS FOUNDATION$10,000
ATHANAEUM MUSIC AND ARTS LIBRARY$9,200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $120k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $40k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $40k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $40k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 39% of The Pacific View Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Pacific View Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 41% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 12 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$4.6M
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+19%

Still filing today

58%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +18%
  • LP
    LAS PATRONAS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $76k · revenue +26%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue ×91 · 45% of their budget
  • HW
    HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +84%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
3
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
5
La Jolla Town Foundation

The La Jolla Town Foundation exists to fund and assist positive and stimulating public events that either improve La Jolla's quality of life, honor La Jolla's history and community character, promote safe and inviting village atmosphere or…

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6
San Diego Historical Society

The mission of the san diego history center is to preserve our region's history - tell the diverse story of our region's past, present, and future; educate and enrich our community; and foster civic pride.

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7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
La Jolla Aquatic Complex Foundation

Mission is to raise funds to help cover the aquatic complex's annual operating expenses and grow both the capital reserve fund for major maintenance expenditures and the endowment funds

Education
9
The Balboa Island Legacy Alliance
Community Improvement
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
The Honarkar Foundation
Public Benefit
12
Los Gatos Museum Association

Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Library Association of La Jolla; the most unlike its peers is Foundation 451 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE: $2,440,492 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEUC REGENTS: $905,000 · OtherUC REGENTSBISHOP SCHOOL: $377,127 · OtherBISHOP SCHOOLACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES: $230,000 · Other+8 more: $436,000 · Other+8 moreTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC: $150,000 · EducationLIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA: $13,700 · EducationSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US: $140,000 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $65,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $50,000 · AnimalsLA JOLLA KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION 451 INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF COAST WALK TRAIL INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,388,619Education$163,700Arts & Culture$155,000Animals$115,000Community Improvement$35,000Environment$10,000Civil Rights$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $2,440,492 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES: $230,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US: $140,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLAS PATRONAS: $75,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA JOLLA KIWANIS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA: $13,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION 451 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF COAST WALK TRAIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLA JOLLA ROTARY 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 VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF MAN DBA MUSEUM OF US ↗
  • Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA KIWANIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
  • Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION 451 INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF COAST WALK TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA ROTARY 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.

The San Diego FoundationCA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Dr Seuss Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 22 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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