· Private foundation
The Sandy and Ed Burr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOF SUPPORT INC | $25,000 |
| GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +84% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- GHGrossmont Hospital Foundation3× · 2017–2023 · $285k · revenue +93%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO5× · 2017–2022 · $79k · revenue +28%
- SDSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- SHSharp Healthcare Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +37%
- CHCALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROLone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BABLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +170%
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.
To operate and maintain a general acute care hospital and related facilities for the acute care of persons suffering from illnesses or disabilities, and for the continuing care of persons needing rehabilitation and the custodial care of…
Coronado hospital foundation is a non profit benefit corporation dedicated to enhancing the health of the community by supporting solutions to coronado's unique health care needs.
To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment
Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.
The san diego police officers association foundation receives charitable contributons from the public and from members of the san diego police officers association, and to engage in charitable fundraising activities.
Grossmont Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient medical services to the community.
Fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served.
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…
Sharp Memorial Hospital provides comprehensive medical services to the San Diego Community.
The san diego police officers association was incorporated in 1953 to assist san diego police officers in issues related to wages, hours and working conditions.
To promote health care through supporting and/or operating, directly or through wholly-owned subsidiaries and other appropriate management arrangements, hospitals and other medically-related facilities and activities in the State of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grossmont Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is California Highway Patrol. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 Grossmont Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL ↗
- Who funds SOF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Sandy and Ed Burr Family 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.
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