· Private foundation
The Stein Family 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 $10k21 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA DE AMPARO | $18,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $15,000 |
| VISTA HILL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SD COUNTY | $12,500 |
| ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC | $12,000 |
| THE IMPACT MVMT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| STAR HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $8,000 |
| KORDA INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| HEAR FOR A PURPOSE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CT | $6,000 |
| STAND WITH US SAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE PROJECT AFRICA INC | $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 (FY17–25, $642k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- CDCasa De Amparo8× · 2017–2025 · $432k · revenue +17%
- VHVISTA HILL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +35%
- VPVILLAGE PROJECT AFRICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- Sstaone grant, 2018 · $67k
- UCURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
- SCSDNETS CO T GOERGENone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Founded in 1887, the center is the oldest children's nonprofit in the region accredited by the joint commission for its excellence in quality of care. the center provides a continuum of therapeutic & educational services to youth &…
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
Cii transforms the lives of children exposed to adversity and poverty in los angeles. by providing early education, behavioral health and family strengthening services, cii reaches 30,000 children and families annually in communities where…
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.
New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
Hannahs Family Center envisions a world where strong families enable children to thrive and communities to prosper. Since 1993, we have helped San Diego families navigate significant adverse changes, trauma and loss. As experts in…
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Blanchard Institute Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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 Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PROJECT AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Deaf Community Services of San Diego Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arms Wide Open Corporation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KORDA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds REEB AVENUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds The Vision of Children ↗
- Who funds The Impact MVMT Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS INCLUDED TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MCRD MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Country Friends · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 Stein 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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