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The San Diego Women's Foundation

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$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$763kInternational$265kCrime & Legal$233kYouth Development$230kHousing & Shelter$193kEducation$189kFood & Nutrition$160kCommunity Improvement$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO$60,000
SERVING SENIORS$60,000
SAY SAN DIEGO$37,500
CASA FAMILIAR$30,000
BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COALITION$10,000
URBAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECT$10,000
HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER$10,000
SANDIEGO350$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $756k) 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.

area typical 8%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $60k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $38k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $38k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $36k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $35k → 11%GENERATE HOPE INC: $60k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $30k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR: $30k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $29k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $30k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $30k → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICAN SUPPORT TEAM: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO AFGHAN REFUGEES AID GROUP: $6k → 11%LICENSE TO FREEDOM: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $25k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $50k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $60k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$887k · 10 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
43

Total granted

$887k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+41%

Still filing today

90%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EO
    ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +1%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +38%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $110k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • MM
    MENDING MATTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • FT
    FREE TO THRIVE
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -89%
  • GI
    GENERATEHOPE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
2
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
3
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…

Human Services
4
Dreams for Change Inc

Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.

Human Services
5
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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6
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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7
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans

We advocate for the full economic, social, and civic inclusion of refugees and displaced populations in the San Diego region, throughout California, and across the country.

Human Services
8
Somali Family Service of San Diego

Somali Family Service, guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees and other underserved communities in San Diego through its programs that promote health, educational and economic success, and leadership development.

Human Services
9
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
10
Institute for Public Strategies

Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…

Health
11
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
12
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Second Families. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRefugee & Immigrant Legal S…Addiction Recovery HousingUnion Health & Welfare Trus…Disability Services & Suppo…River & Land ConservationCommunity Health CentersHistory & Science MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Jewish Community ServicesSan Diego Community Develop…Youth Development Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%33%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
14%
2,128/14,700

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $126,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGOSERVING SENIORS — $110,000 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORSSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INCSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONAL — $79,450 · Human ServicesSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONALBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $70,000 · Human ServicesBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTERGENERATEHOPE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INCTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $56,078 · Human ServicesTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECTFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $50,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORSJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO+10 more — $190,477 · Human Services+10 moreFREE TO THRIVE — $75,000 · OtherFREE TO THRIVEPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC — $60,000 · OtherPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVIC…COASTAL ROOTS FARM — $50,000 · OtherCOASTAL ROOTS FARMKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $50,000 · OtherKITCHENS FOR GOODPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $41,769 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATIONALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $30,000 · OtherURBAN GROWTH — $30,000 · OtherTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO — $28,226 · OtherTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $25,000 · OtherCasa Cornelia Legal Services — $50,000 · OtherCasa Cornelia Legal ServicesAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $30,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $45,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDRENGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM — $30,000 · Other+9 more — $117,042 · Other+9 moreMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $125,000 · EducationMONARCH SCH…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $54,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANI…Think Dignity — $50,000 · EducationThink Digni…Traveling Stories — $10,000 · EducationMENDING MATTERS — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENDING MA…JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TI…DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID'S HA…Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Me…INDIGENOUS REGENERATION — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentINDIGENOUS…Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban — $14,687 · Youth DevelopmentDepositing…International Rescue Committee INC — $110,000 · InternationalInternati…PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · InternationalPROJECT C…THE AJA PROJECT — $35,000 · InternationalTHE AJA P…THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $66,000 · HealthSouthern Indian Health Council — $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3 — $10,000 · HealthLOGAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $35,000 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECT DBA URBAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECT — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$902,005Other$692,037Education$239,000Youth Development$234,687International$195,000Health$91,000Community Improvement$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $126,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING SENIORS — $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONAL — $79,450 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMENDING MATTERS — $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREE TO THRIVE — $75,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER — $66,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThink Dignity — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOGAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $41,769 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AJA PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM — $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services — $29,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO — $28,226 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCasa De Amparo — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF — $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Indian Health Council — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS REGENERATION — $15,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetDepositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban — $14,687 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetUnited Women of East Africa Support Team — $14,687 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMuslim American Society of San Diego County — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND FAMILIES — $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…Alliance Healthcare F…Catalyst of San Diego…The Parker FoundationSempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationThe Country Friends
The San Diego FoundationCA80.2× affinity44 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 · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · The Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Country Friends

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 San Diego Women's 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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