· Public charity
The Thursday Club San Diego California
Promoting the consideration of educational, cultural, social, moral, and civic activities to make our san diego community a better place for all.
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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| EMILIO NARES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AUTISM TREE | $15,000 |
| CESAR CHAVEZ SERVICE CLUBS | $15,000 |
| COASTAL ROOTS FARM | $15,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS FUND FOR UNHOUSED YOUTH | $15,000 |
| PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUPPORT ENLISTED PROJECT | $15,000 |
| EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $14,500 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION HEMATOLOGY & GYNECOLOGY | $13,258 |
| MINGEI | $13,258 |
| PENINSULA SHEPARDS CENTER | $10,992 |
| BLISSFUL SEEDS | $7,499 |
| HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO | $6,305 |
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 (FY25–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The mission of san diego botanic garden: we garden to create, share, and apply plant wisdom in our world. the organization's diverse topography and wide variety of microclimates provides visitors with the varied sensations of strolling…
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…
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…
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)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Emilio Nares Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 THURSDAY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Emilio Nares Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds Mingei International Inc ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BLISSFUL SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO ↗
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 · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · The Thursday Club Foundation · The Country Friends
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 San Diego California 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.