· Private foundation
The Schalon Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NW SAN DIEG | $30,000 |
| BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LORYS PLACE FOR HOSPICE | $25,000 |
| ARS ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE SOUP KITCKEN INC | $20,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $20,000 |
| FALCON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SCRIPPS RANCH HIGH S MUSIC BOOSTERS | $15,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| BOX FACTORY FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| SJHS SJ MUSICAL BOOSTERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 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, 96% 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
- SBSILVER BEACH CAROUSEL SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $292k · revenue +4% · 49% of their budget
- CDCITADEL DANCE AND MUSIC CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +81%
- AAARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER5× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +45% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- SMSW MI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2017 · $70k
- BLBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMPone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +21%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SW MIone grant, 2017 · $40k
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 south bay artist collective's mission as a 501(c)3 non-profit is to support and grow the local visual arts community through creating a destination for art and creativity, while teaching and inspiring youth. our purpose is to support…
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…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
La Jolla Symphony Chorus Association was organized in 1957 under the nonprofit public benefit corporation laws for public and charitable purposes. The mission of the association is to inspire the San Diego community with the joy of music…
To promote the education and advancement of art in the city of south bend, st. joseph county, and surrounding areas.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
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…
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
Enrich community life via the theatre and creative arts.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
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 Krasl Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twin City Players. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 72 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 BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER BEACH CAROUSEL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITADEL DANCE AND MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COMPANION RABBIT SOCIETY INC DBA SAN DIEGO HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Opera Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sharias Closet ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds Falcon Playhouse Foundation ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KRASL ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Cushman Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inc · The Marzke Family Foundation · Evergreene Foundation · Whirlpool Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley 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 Schalon 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.