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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.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$460kPhilanthropy$52kHealth$48kHuman Services$45kAnimals$41kYouth Development$30kFood & Nutrition$15kEmployment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $192k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO ZOO WILDLIFE ALLIANCE$30,000
EMILIO NARES FOUNDATION$20,000
SUPPORT ENLISTED PROJECT$15,000
AUTISM TREE$15,000
CESAR CHAVEZ SERVICE CLUBS$15,000
NEW BEGINNINGS FUND FOR UNHOUSED YOUTH$15,000
PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION$15,000
COASTAL ROOTS FARM$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%BLISSFUL SEEDS: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Centro De San Juan Diego Foundation Inc Fka Douglas&Bennett Family Fdn
Philanthropy
7
Connect Foundation

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…

Education
8
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
9
Quail Botanical Gardens Foundation

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…

Environment
10
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

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…

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11
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE THURSDAY CLUB FOUNDATION: $498,323 · PhilanthropyTHE THURSDAY CLUB FOUNDATION+2 more: $28,258 · Philanthropy+2 morePROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $15,000 · OtherPENINSULA SHEPARDS CENTER: $10,992 · OtherEmilio Nares Foundation: $20,000 · HealthAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $15,000 · HealthZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 · AnimalsEpiscopal Community Services: $14,500 · Human ServicesBLISSFUL SEEDS INC: $7,499 · Human ServicesSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Public BenefitHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO: $6,305 · Public BenefitCesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMingei International Inc: $13,258 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$526,581Other$40,992Health$35,000Animals$30,000Human Services$21,999Public Benefit$21,305Youth Development$15,000Arts & Culture$13,258

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE THURSDAY CLUB FOUNDATION: $498,323 over 6y, 49% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $13,258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMingei International Inc: $13,258 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO: $6,305 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…David C Copley Founda…The Cushman FoundationPrice Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…Billingsley Foundatio…Allison and Robert Pr…The Thursday Club Fou…The Country Friends
The San Diego FoundationCA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thursday Club San Diego California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thursday Club San Diego California. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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