· Private foundation
The Shiley 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $377k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CA STATE SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SERVING SENIORS | $102,000 |
| SALK INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $75,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
| ST RITA'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| LA JOLLA INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY | $38,430 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $30,000 |
| PATRONS OF THE PRADO | $25,000 |
| PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL | $24,000 |
| OLD GLOBE THEATRE | $21,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $336k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO4× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +60%
- SHSharp Healthcare Foundation2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +34%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND2× · 2020–2023 · $425k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $250k
WGBH Educational Foundationone grant, 2021 · $187k · revenue +1%- SDSan Diego Opera Associationone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
The san diego museum of man, dba museum of us, sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the kumeyaay nation, in san diegos balboa park. the museum of us extends its respect and gratitude to the kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
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…
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Opera Association and the most unlike its peers is Solutions Exploring Success Post Hs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 59 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 UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Diego Opera Association ↗
- Who funds REUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PATRONS OF THE PRADO ↗
- Who funds THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ↗
- Who funds VILLA MUSICA ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SCPGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Girard Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund
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 Shiley 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.
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.