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The Principio Foundation at a glance

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The Principio 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$58kYouth Development$40kEducation$25kFood & Nutrition$24kInternational$18kReligion$15kHuman Services$10kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$529k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAGUNA BEACH YOUTH FOOTBALL$15,000
KID WORKS$10,000
CALVARY SOUTH OC$3,000
COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY$2,500
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 (FY22–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KID WORKS: $15k → 10%KID WORKS: $10k → 10%KID WORKS: $10k → 10%KID WORKS: $5k → 10%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$345k · 7 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$345k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+52%

Still filing today

57%
53%

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
ReligionHealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • KC
    KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +59%
  • LF
    LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +212%
  • CB
    Community Bible Study
    3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SM
    SANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
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
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
2
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…

Health
5
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
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
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
8
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
9
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
10
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation

Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.

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11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Children's Dental Foundation

To deliver oral health education and comprehensive treatment for economically disadvantaged children, including those with complex medical considerations, while also providing premier training in pediatric and multi-specialty dentistry.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE MIND: $210,250 · OtherONE MINDLAGUNA BEACH YOUTH FOOTBALL: $56,000 · OtherLAGUNA BEACH YOUTH FOOTBALLLAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $23,532 · OtherLAGUNA FOOD PANTRYSANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO: $22,860 · OtherSANTA MARGARITA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOO+10 more: $39,070 · Other+10 moreKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS C…+1 more: $1,150 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionCommunity Bible Study: $6,000 · Religion+1 more: $268 · ReligionSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $8,000 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthDIRECT RELIEF: $8,000 · InternationalCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$351,712Human Services$41,150Religion$16,268Health$9,000International$8,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

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 budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLAGUNA FOOD PANTRY: $23,532 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALLYS FUND INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $268 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.

  • Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
  • Who funds CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SALLYS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Assistance League of Long Beach ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY HELP CENTER ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Principio Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Principio 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, 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 24 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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