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The San Diego Foundation

THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

$99M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,158
Grants FY2025still arriving
44
States reached
$5.0M
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.

Education$181MHuman Services$89MHealth$69MArts & Culture$63MEnvironment$54MScience & Tech$51MPhilanthropy$49MYouth Development$36MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1158 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,158 grants below total $94,296,130, the rows itemized in this filing. The $98,736,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,440,431 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k176 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k595 grants · $12M
  • $50k–250k325 grants · $35M
  • $250k+62 grants · $45M
$25,000
Median grant
44
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$4,956,124
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$3,739,925
POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER$2,195,000
JUST TRANSITION ALLIANCE$1,912,356
WTA FOUNDATION INC$1,500,000
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE$1,500,000
UC SAN DIEGO$1,492,102
CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$1,358,614
SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY COLLEGE AUXILIARY ORGANIZATION$1,205,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO$1,197,224
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$1,121,645
LAZARIAN WORLD HOMES$974,388
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$961,666
FOREVER BALBOA PARK$958,341
SAN DIEGO HABITAT CONSERVANCY$929,175
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $86.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $436k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $310k → 11%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $993k → 11%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $827k → 11%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $642k → 11%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $540k → 11%CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $370k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $300k → 11%Casa de Amparo: $308k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $307k → 11%LEAH'S PANTRY: $461k → 11%SAN DIEGO OASIS: $449k → 11%SAN DIEGO OASIS: $381k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $13.3M → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1.8M → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1.7M → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1.4M → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $1.4M → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $842k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $714k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $500k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $499k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $427k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $406k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $355k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $322k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $319k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $290k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $5.9M → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $385k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $370k → 11%UNION OF PAN ASIAN COMMUNITIES: $668k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $295k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR INC: $1.2M → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER: $382k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 11%SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1.7M → 11%SBCS: $711k → 11%SBCS: $516k → 11%SBCS: $342k → 11%CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INC: $12.3M → 11%CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES INC: $5.0M → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICA SUPPORT TEAM: $1.6M → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICA SUPPORT TEAM: $1.4M → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICA SUPPORT TEAM: $395k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $287k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $597k → 11%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $481k → 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

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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of The San Diego Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The San Diego Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$673M · 1357 repeat orgs$37M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

1357 repeat relationships: 827 still active in FY2025, 530 since wound down; 132 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1357
437

Total granted

$673M
$27M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+4%

Still filing today

84%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M 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

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EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43M · revenue +78%
  • YO
    YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +103%
  • CD
    Child Development Associates Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $17M · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • PF
    PADRES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +106% · 70% of their budget
  • SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue +4%
  • EV
    EAST VALLEY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF
    one grant, 2018 · $800k
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
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care For All San Diegans

Health
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education
3
American Chemical Society - San Diego

Promotion, awareness and support in the field of chemistry

Science & Tech
4
Scripps College

Scripps College ("Scripps") is an independent, liberal arts, undergraduate college for women.

Education
5
University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education
6
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

To promote community investment in public education to ensure equity and access to an innovative, world-class education that inspires confidence, competence, and creativity in every student in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
7
Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator

Pasadena bio collaborative incubator is a nonprofit organization focused on economic development and job creation in southern california. we encourage the growth of an innovative biotechnology industry by providing educational/training…

Science & Tech
8
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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9
San Diego Biomedical Research Institute

The SDBRI mission is to find new ways to predict and prevent cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, neurological disorders and HIV infection, and to accelerate medical advances that maintain health and improve quality of life.

Health
10
California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education
11
California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech
12
Cabrillo College Foundation

To provide student scholarships, increase student success, and support of academic programs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Seniors Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Uss Midway Museum. 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

1730 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1730 of the 2,000 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.

213
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
457
Early backer (in before they grew)
1671/1730
Grantees still filing
1139/1730
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $30,721,930 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT …UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,128,310 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $9,174,989 · Other+91 more: $164,856,749 · Other+91 moreUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $42,718,047 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDAT…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $12,126,536 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDA…THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $8,119,194 · EducationTHE SOUTHWESTERN COL…SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,743,529 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIV…County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation: $3,568,023 · Education+16 more: $26,664,270 · Education+16 moreYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $28,017,981 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO …Child Development Associates Inc: $17,300,500 · Human ServicesChild Development …MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $3,998,664 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION: $3,753,579 · Human ServicesUnited Women of East Africa Support Team: $3,740,152 · Human ServicesCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $3,421,440 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3,040,633 · Human Services+22 more: $26,822,305 · Human Services+22 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $12,312,440 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMM…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $5,635,124 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER: $5,373,026 · PhilanthropyPOLICY & IN…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $4,798,703 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVIS…Inland Empire Community Foundation: $3,508,000 · PhilanthropyInland Empi…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,327,050 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $2,769,220 · PhilanthropySONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,716,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,699,848 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,461,370 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $2,322,035 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $2,154,213 · Philanthropy+6 more: $6,675,731 · Philanthropy+6 moreTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $11,916,893 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DI…THE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $5,950,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PLANET…SAN DIEGO HABITAT CONSERVANCY: $5,332,739 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO …SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $3,175,366 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO …VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: $2,432,026 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $2,169,042 · Arts & CultureSan Diego Opera Association: $1,892,034 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $1,865,221 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $1,750,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $1,704,430 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $11,817,094 · Arts & Culture+11 moreSharp Healthcare Foundation: $7,450,836 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $6,407,975 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $3,099,101 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $1,800,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $1,712,577 · HealthTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,255,124 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $1,243,284 · HealthSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $1,222,200 · HealthCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $1,151,156 · Health+4 more: $3,417,950 · HealthThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $13,896,045 · Science & TechELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $2,048,256 · Science & TechTREOBYTES INC: $1,807,227 · Science & TechDATA SCIENCE ALLIANCE: $1,400,000 · Science & Tech
Other$214,881,978Education$98,939,599Human Services$90,095,254Philanthropy$56,752,760Arts & Culture$50,004,845Health$28,760,203Science & Tech$19,151,528

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $42,718,047 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $28,017,981 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetChild Development Associates Inc: $17,300,500 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $13,896,045 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $12,312,440 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $12,126,536 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $11,916,893 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,128,310 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $9,174,989 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $8,119,194 over 6y, 24% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $7,450,836 over 9y, 13% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $6,407,975 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Community College Auxiliary Organization: $6,267,544 over 9y, 98% of budgetTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $5,950,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,743,529 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $5,635,124 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPOLICY & INNOVATION CENTER: $5,373,026 over 4y, 67% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT CONSERVANCY: $5,332,739 over 9y, 35% of budgetREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER: $4,840,914 over 9y, 12% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $4,798,703 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLazarian World Homes Inc: $4,676,641 over 9y, 98% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $4,212,405 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $3,998,664 over 9y, 28% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $3,753,579 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetUnited Women of East Africa Support Team: $3,740,152 over 5y, 29% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $3,676,666 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $3,586,650 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetCounty of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation: $3,568,023 over 6y, 20% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $3,508,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $3,421,440 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,327,050 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $3,175,366 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $3,099,101 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $3,084,338 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $3,040,633 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,959,947 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,922,667 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $2,915,951 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation: $2,841,690 over 9y, 23% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,782,131 over 9y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $2,769,220 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetVAPA Foundation: $2,749,097 over 6y, 84% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,716,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $2,708,018 over 9y, 24% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $2,700,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,699,848 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTHE ESCONDIDO CREEK CONSERVANCY: $2,668,653 over 9y, 41% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $2,541,011 over 9y, 9.4% 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 UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Child Development Associates Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds San Diego Community College Auxiliary Organization ↗
  • Who funds THE PLANETARY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds POLICY & INNOVATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HABITAT CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Lazarian World Homes Inc ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds United Women of East Africa Support Team ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗

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 Conrad Prebys Fou…The Parker FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Cushman FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Walter J & Betty C Za…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Alliance Healthcare F…Samuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundFrench Fund Samuel Ka…Boys and Girls Aid So…
The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA207.9× affinity260 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd

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 San Diego Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The San Diego Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Springfield Museums Corporation: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
79report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 2000 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home