· Private foundation
The Patricia and Christopher Weil Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $330,635 |
| STUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS | $102,000 |
| UCSD FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MAINLY MOZART INC | $49,500 |
| VOICE OF SAN DIEGO | $40,000 |
| INEWSOURCE | $20,000 |
| THE OLD GLOBE THEATRE | $20,000 |
| LA JOLLA SYMPHONY & CHORUS | $16,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $10,000 |
| COHO PRODUCTIONS LTD | $6,000 |
| ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Patricia and Christopher Weil Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $693k · revenue +78%
- MMMainly Mozart Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +31%
- SWSTUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS5× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PSPREUSS SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $145k
- GCGOMPERS CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $102k
- CCCAL COAST CARES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -71%
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.
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…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
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…
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…
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 229 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mainly Mozart Inc ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Words Alive ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
- Who funds CAL COAST CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA SYMPHONY AND CHORUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ↗
- Who funds THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BASIC ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFIED IMPACT PARTNERS fka SAN DIEGO SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Canyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Coho Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · David C Copley Foundation · Leichtag 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 Patricia and Christopher Weil Family 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.
- Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble — 9% of income from government
- Coho Productions Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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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