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The Popocatepetl Foundation Fka Blachford-Cooper Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Popocatepetl Foundation Fka Blachford-Cooper Foundation Inc

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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$807kEducation$434kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kHealth$62kAnimals$14kInternational$5kRecreation & Sports$5kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $128k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION$42,600
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM$38,334
LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY$36,650
STAND UP TO CANCER$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,500
INEWSOURCE$5,150
DALLAS DOES DANCE$1,000
SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION$520
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM PARK LEGACY BRICK PROGRAM: $5k → 8%WILLOW ROCK WARRIORS INC: $2k → 9%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $60k → 11%DESERT ROSE PRODUCTIONS INC: $1k → 11%STAND WITH UKRAINE: $5k → 14%FEVER DOG LLC: $50k → 17%CHILD PROTECTION CENTER: $3k → 15%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $6k → 8%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $58k → 11%DESERT AIDS PROJECT: $2k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $105k → 14%BROADWAY CARES: $6k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $6k → 8%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $47k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $89k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $6k → 8%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $44k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $84k → 14%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $37k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $9k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $5k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%MINGEI MUSEUM: $5k → 11%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%DIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS IN: $5k → 11%INEWSOURCE: $7k → 11%INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $6k → 11%INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $6k → 11%INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $6k → 11%INEWSOURCE: $5k → 11%INEWSOURCE: $5k → 11%CHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION: $43k → 11%CHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%CHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%UCSD FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%THE OLD GLOBE: $40k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $38k → 11%LAST HOPE 4 PAWS: $10k → 11%THE OLD GLOBE: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $6k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 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

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 42% of The Popocatepetl Foundation Fka Blachford-Cooper Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Popocatepetl Foundation Fka Blachford-Cooper Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$856k · 12 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$856k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

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Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OG
    OLD GLOBE THEATRE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $337k · revenue +38%
  • CV
    CHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +260%
  • IN
    INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +288%

Funded once

  • FD
    FEVER DOG LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • LH
    LAST HOPE 4 PAWS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +31%
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.

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San Diego Theatres Inc

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),…

Arts & Culture
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
San Diego County Bar Association

The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…

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4
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Opera Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
8
San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

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9
The New Childrens Museum

The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…

Arts & Culture
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
11
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
12
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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

25 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. 25 of the 34 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLD GLOBE THEATRE: $337,120 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRELA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $259,350 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETYUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $43,334 · Arts & CultureUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM+5 more: $30,500 · Arts & CultureUCLA FOUNDATION: $428,075 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $34,650 · EducationINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE+1 more: $2,700 · EducationFEVER DOG LLC: $50,000 · OtherFEVER DOG …THE OLD GLOBE: $50,000 · OtherTHE OLD GL…SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS INSTITUTE: $7,000 · OtherBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $6,000 · OtherMINGEI MUSEUM: $5,000 · OtherFREEDOM PARK LEGACY BRICK PROGRAM: $4,991 · Other+7 more: $8,741 · Other+7 moreCHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION: $65,350 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $2,800 · Crime & LegalSTAND UP TO CANCER: $22,000 · PhilanthropyTHE IMPERIAL COURT DE SAN DIEGO INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $19,898 · HealthDAP Health Inc: $1,700 · HealthWILLOW ROCK WARRIORS INC: $1,500 · HealthLAST HOPE 4 PAWS: $10,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $2,070 · AnimalsFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$670,304Education$465,425Other$131,732Crime & Legal$68,150Philanthropy$25,500Health$23,098Animals$12,070Civil Rights$250

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $428,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $337,120 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $259,350 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION: $65,350 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $43,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $34,650 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $19,898 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAST HOPE 4 PAWS: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSIONARY THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION: $3,770 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $2,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $2,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAP Health Inc: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT ROSE PRODUCTIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALPHA NEWS: $261 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Association: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…The Parker FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationGirard FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…The James Irvine Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…
The San Diego FoundationCA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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 · Girard Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Popocatepetl Foundation Fka Blachford-Cooper Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Popocatepetl Foundation Fka Blachford-Cooper Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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 34 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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