· Private foundation
The Richard and Ann Jaffe Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN | $61,375 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNE | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $11k) 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.
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.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2019, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- SDSAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +51%
- KFKITCHENS FOR GOOD2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +223%
- CRCOASTAL ROOTS FARM2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +218%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -2%
- PKPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +70%
- FTFREE TO THRIVEone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -78%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
the organization was created to operate a high school serving the Jewish community of San Diego. Our mission is to prepare individuals for a lifetime of learning, spiritual growth, and community responsibility as Jews. Our goal is to…
San diego center for jewish culture ("cjc") is a california 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in january 1999. cjc is housed at lawrence family jewish community centers of san diego county. cjc provides a wide…
Advocating for Human-Centered Design as a regional approach to improve economic, social, and civic life in our community.Design Forward Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to leveraging the power of design to drive social impact.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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
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 SAN DIEGO JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FREE TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Veterans Research Alliance ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PARTNERS ↗
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 · Leichtag Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Turk Family Foundation · Isakow Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies 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 Richard and Ann Jaffe 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.
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.