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The Sid and Jenny Craig Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$275k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Arts & Culture$358kHuman Services$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPhilanthropy$30kPublic Benefit$25kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$10kMembership Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$275,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM$275,000
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 (FY18–21, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $5k → 17%SOF SUPPORT: $75k → 7%MIRACLE BABIES: $2k → 11%SOF SUPPORT: $10k → 7%CASA DE AMPARO: $1k → 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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$225k · 4 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
21

Total granted

$225k
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+43%

Still filing today

25%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SS
    SOF SUPPORT INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $85k · revenue -8%
  • BD
    Best Defense Foundation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $55k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CI
    CharityVision International
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -37%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +54%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATION FORCES
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
2
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
3
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
4
Curebound

The organization's mission is to provide funding for the best cancer research ideas in san diego. all proceeds from curebound stay in san diego to fund innovative and collaborative cancer research.

Health
5
Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
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
9
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

10
San Diego Diplomacy Council

Programmed and coordinated visits to san diego by international visitors and escorts, working in association with appropriate united states government agencies and the global ties u.s. network.

Community Improvement
11
United Service Organization Uso Council of San Diego

The primary mission of the uso san diego is to strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.

12
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo and the most unlike its peers is Neurolab 360. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM — $275,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUMBest Defense Foundation — $55,000 · OtherBest Defense FoundationLUX ART INSTITUTE — $35,000 · OtherLUX ART INSTITUTESPECIAL OPERATION FORCES — $20,000 · Other+10 more — $79,100 · Other+10 moreSOF SUPPORT INC — $84,770 · Human ServicesSOF SUPPORT IN…CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN CO…+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION — $49,938 · Crime & LegalCharityVision International — $30,000 · PhilanthropyPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO — $25,000 · Public BenefitCoronado Hospital Foundation — $10,000 · HealthBELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE — $5,000 · HealthNEUROLAB 360 — $5,000 · Health
Other$464,100Human Services$92,770Crime & Legal$49,938Philanthropy$30,000Arts & Culture$30,000Public Benefit$25,000Health$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOF SUPPORT INC — $84,770 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION — $49,938 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLUX ART INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCharityVision International — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $10,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE COUNTRY FRIENDS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCoronado Hospital Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEUROLAB 360 — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa De Amparo — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FoundationCA24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sempra Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Sid and Jenny Craig 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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