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The Shared Fund at a glance

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The Shared Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$794kPhilanthropy$194kReligion$70kHuman Services$69kCrime & Legal$68kEducation$65kHealth$59kInternational$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,265
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS CHARITABLE$55,000
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$12,000
NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE$10,000
AVERA HEALTH FOUNDATION$7,500
DESIRE CHILDCARE ORGANIZATION$5,100
ABUNDANCE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE$5,000
GLASS WING INTERNATIONAL$5,000
NDN COLLECTIVE$5,000
GILLETTE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$5,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM$5,000
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA$5,000
SHIR TIKVAH$5,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$5,000
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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%EL AMOR DE PATRICIA: $3k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $3k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1k → 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

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
CA
CO
KY
VA
AR
TN
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 57 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
23

Total granted

$1.3M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+23%

Still filing today

56%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • TS
    THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +38%
  • NC
    NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +112%
  • CR
    Conflict Resolution Center
    7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • DC
    DAKOTA CHILD AND FAMILY CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Zoological Society of San Diego

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.

Animals
6
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
12
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis; the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM: $256,000 · OtherMINGEI INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMVARIOUS CHARITABLE: $100,500 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITABLETEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $44,490 · OtherTEMPLE SOLEL OF NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $37,500 · OtherMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $34,000 · Other+62 more: $327,660 · Other+62 moreTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $196,181 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASS…MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $135,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGONORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $74,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRELA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETYSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $25,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureConflict Resolution Center: $43,000 · Crime & LegalVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $25,450 · Crime & LegalBreck School: $17,500 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationNEW ISRAEL FUND: $33,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,050 · International+2 more: $2,000 · InternationalJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $22,800 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesEL AMOR DE PATRICIA: $2,500 · Human ServicesSEACREST FOUNDATION: $20,600 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $1,800 · PhilanthropyPATRONS OF THE PRADO: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$800,150Arts & Culture$484,681Crime & Legal$68,450Education$47,500International$39,550Human Services$31,300Philanthropy$28,400

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 budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $196,181 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $135,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE: $74,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetConflict Resolution Center: $43,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $37,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY: $35,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $34,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $33,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART: $25,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $25,450 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $22,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION: $20,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBreck School: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDAKOTA CHILD AND FAMILY CLINIC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEL AMOR DE PATRICIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST: $2,360 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Womens Coalition Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS INCLUDED TOGETHER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL ADVISORY COUNCIL OF GREATER LONG BEACH AND WEST ORANGE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Conflict Resolution Center ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds SEACREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Breck School ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗

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 San Diego Foundat…The Minneapolis Found…Jewish Community Foun…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mandell Weiss Charita…The Cushman FoundationLeichtag FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…The Arthur & Barbara …Mightycause Charitabl…Price Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…
The San Diego FoundationCA25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report 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 93 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-PF 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