· Private foundation
The Robert and Audrey Zinser Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of THE ROBERT AND AUDREY ZINSER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO DANCE THEARTER | $17,000 |
| THE MLK COMMUNITY CHOIR OF SAN DIEG | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTISTS MUSIC ACADE | $7,500 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCEITY | $6,000 |
| BORREGO ART INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $2,000 |
| KPBS | $2,000 |
| THE MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN CAREGIVERS RESOURCE CENTER | $200 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 DANCE THEATER8× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +30%
- PSPACIFIC SOUTHWEST RAILWAY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +136%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC4× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ADAnza-Borrego Desert Natural History Assograduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +256%
- BIBOZ INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UMUSS MIDWAY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
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 Museum functions as an educational and cultural institutionexercising community responsibility for the preservation of the automotive arts and sciences
To inspire, educate and engage the broadest possible audience through the presentation, collection, and preservation of photography, film and video. opa is one of only three museums in the nation dedicated solely to lens-based medium.
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
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…
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…
Together we defend the regions birds, unique biodiversity and threatened habitats through advocacy, education and restoration.
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…
The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…
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,…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is OPERA4KIDS. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RAILWAY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Borrego Art Institute ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA4KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM ↗
- Who funds Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Asso ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Myositis Association ↗
- Who funds BODHI TREE CONCERTS ↗
- Who funds USS MIDWAY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO FIRE RELIEF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Borrego Springs Youth and Senior Center ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Robert and Audrey Zinser Charitable 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.