· Private foundation
The Thomas G & Audrey E Pine Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Thomas G & Audrey E Pine Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Diego Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Thomas G & Audrey E Pine Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $7,300 |
| GIRLS GARAGE | $5,000 |
| KPBS PRODUCERS CLUB | $2,000 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MOBILIZATION FOR JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| SCRIPPS PRESIDENTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE OF CAREGIVERS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY & YOUTH OUTREACH | $2,000 |
| CREATIVE GROWTH | $2,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PHOENIX SOCIETY FOR BURN SURVIVORS | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 78% of The Thomas G & Audrey E Pine Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 24% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +69% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- SOSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONAL6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +165%
- RJResounding Joy Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +54%
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- MFMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -19%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGOone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- BIBRAILLE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Resounding Joy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GARAGE ↗
- Who funds Creative Growth Art Center ↗
- Who funds MINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PARA-CLIFFHANGERS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES DBA DUWAMISH TRIBAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds Mobilization for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds Civil Liberties Defense Center ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds California Alliance of Caregivers ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK 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.
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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 Thomas G & Audrey E Pine 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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