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The Thursday Club Foundation

To support the thursday club of san diego, california promote the consideration of educational, cultural, social, moral, and civic activities.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$500kHealth$291kYouth Development$211kHuman Services$153kRecreation & Sports$137kPublic Benefit$105kHousing & Shelter$73kEducation$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $203,444 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $209,274 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,830 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $181k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$637k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THURSDAY CLUB$180,944
BALBOA PARK ACTIVITY CENTER$15,000
GOODWILL$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $15k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY NETWORK: $13k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%PAVE: $10k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%MIND TREASURES: $15k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS AND LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 11%MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%SHARIA'S CLOSET: $20k → 11%THE COMFORT CLUB: $5k → 11%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 11%SHORELINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 11%GIRLS RISING: $9k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $8k → 11%SAN DIEGO CIVIC DANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $6k → 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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$367k · 13 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
74

Total granted

$367k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+25%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +62%
  • AF
    ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +9%
  • EO
    ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • U
    URBANSURF4KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $88k · revenue +63% · 50% of their budget
  • SF
    SEANY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $82k · revenue -99%

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 Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
3
Sport Innovators

To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…

Philanthropy
4
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
5
San Diego Crime Commission

Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…

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6
San Diego Parks Foundation

To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…

Recreation & Sports
7
San Diego Theatre Critics Circle

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…

Arts & Culture
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 Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
10
Scripps Health

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)

Health
11
United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County

To advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people affected by cerebral palsy and other disabilities by offering the following programs: adult day and employment programs, an assistive technology center, a toy and…

Health
12
San Diego County Philatelic Council

To promote stamp collecting

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shoreline Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Autry Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr21%31%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/89
the rest of the field
14%
2,128/14,672

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.

04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 89 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/84
Grantees still filing
58/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE THURSDAY CLUB SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA — $180,944 · OtherTHE THURSDAY CLUB SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIABalboa ParkMorley Field Recreation Council — $110,000 · OtherBalboa ParkMorley Field Recreation CouncilCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO — $52,000 · OtherCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGOGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $50,500 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC — $43,000 · Other+38 more — $460,283 · Other+38 moreANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $28,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTE…ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF…Mitchell Thorp Foundation — $20,000 · Human ServicesMitchell Tho…Sharias Closet — $20,000 · Human ServicesSharias Clos…TransFamily Support Services — $20,000 · Human ServicesTransFamily …SAN DIEGO REFUGEE TUTORING — $15,517 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO RE…MIND TREASURES — $15,000 · Human ServicesMIND TREASUR…GIRLS RISING — $8,850 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORS — $8,000 · Human ServicesChildren of the Immaculate Heart — $8,000 · Human Services+5 more — $26,830 · Human Services+5 moreSEANY FOUNDATION — $82,000 · HealthSEANY FOUN…ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION — $21,833 · HealthERIC PARED…CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · HealthCONNECTMED…Resounding Joy Inc — $11,999 · HealthResounding…Emilio Nares Foundation — $10,000 · HealthEmilio Nar…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3 — $7,500 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $7,000 · HealthSUNSHINE RANCH THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $7,000 · Health+1 more — $4,175 · HealthSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM — $24,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO…BALBOA PARK CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP — $22,416 · Arts & CultureBALBOA PA…SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $21,833 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO…SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $16,700 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO…SAN DIEGO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO…Leap to Success — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLeap to S…YOUNG LIONS JAZZ CONSERVATORY — $10,179 · Arts & CultureYOUNG LIO…SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO…MEDIA ARTS CENTER SAN DIEGO — $7,194 · Arts & CultureMainly Mozart Inc — $6,143 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,019 · Arts & CultureURBANSURF4KIDS — $88,000 · Recreation & SportsCornerstone Therapeutic Riding Center — $22,417 · Recreation & SportsDISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC — $10,122 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $7,300 · Recreation & SportsANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARPAL — $35,700 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $15,300 · Youth DevelopmentQuality of Life Connections dba San Diego VeloYouth — $7,735 · Youth DevelopmentVILLAGE OF PROMISE HEALTH OUTREACH — $5,521 · Youth DevelopmentHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO — $100,305 · Public BenefitUNITED THROUGH READING — $5,025 · Public Benefit
Other$896,727Human Services$195,197Health$166,507Arts & Culture$153,484Recreation & Sports$127,839Youth Development$114,256Public Benefit$105,330

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE THURSDAY CLUB SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA — $180,944 over 1y, 44% of budgetBalboa ParkMorley Field Recreation Council — $110,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO — $100,305 over 1y, 13% of budgetURBANSURF4KIDS — $88,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION — $82,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO — $52,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $50,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANY BODY CAN YOUTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC — $43,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSTARPAL — $35,700 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $28,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM — $24,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJohn Brockington Foundation — $23,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSAN DIEGO JUNIOR THEATRE — $23,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSan Diego Floral Association — $23,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY — $22,417 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCornerstone Therapeutic Riding Center — $22,417 over 1y, 36% of budgetBALBOA PARK CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP — $22,416 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $22,416 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $21,833 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION — $21,833 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMitchell Thorp Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSharias Closet — $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTransFamily Support Services — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $19,876 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO CIVIC YOUTH BALLET — $17,921 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $17,337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $16,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO REFUGEE TUTORING — $15,517 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPROPHET WORLD BEAT PRODUCTIONS — $15,337 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $15,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIND TREASURES — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLeap to Success — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $13,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomens History Reclamation Project Inc dba Womens Museum of California — $12,337 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetResounding Joy Inc — $11,999 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPOINTER ASSOCIATION — $11,640 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSister League of San Diego Inc — $10,838 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $10,830 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS — $10,749 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG LIONS JAZZ CONSERVATORY — $10,179 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetDISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC — $10,122 over 1y, 19% of budgetNAVY MARINE CORPS PROUD FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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 Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Cushman FoundationJewish Community Foun…David C Copley Founda…Price Philanthropies …Sempra FoundationWalter J & Betty C Za…The Parker FoundationSamuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundRancho Santa Fe Found…
The San Diego FoundationCA82.5× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation

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 Thursday Club 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Thursday Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Thursday Club Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 89 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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