· Private foundation
Dianne & Thomas Lookabaugh 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| KPBS | $5,000 |
| LAMB'S PLAYERS THEATRE | $5,000 |
| SAN DIEGO WOMEN FOUNDATION | $2,545 |
| TAILAR WAY INC | $2,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL | $1,132 |
| CORONADO PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATI | $1,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN ANTONIO | $1,000 |
| SAN DIEGO DIPLOMACY COUNCIL | $540 |
| SAFE HARBOR CORONADO | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY19–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 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; $5k 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
- CICORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL6× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +87%
- BCBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +88%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO4× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CCCORONADO COMM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $25k
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +26%
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.
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…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…
Connectocean conservation and outreach is dedicated to fostering ocean stewardship and conserving aquatic ecosystems through community engagement, education, and collaborative conservation efforts. our mission is to connect communities to…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The mission of the san diego history center is to preserve our region's history - tell the diverse story of our region's past, present, and future; educate and enrich our community; and foster civic pride.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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 31 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) — 3% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 78 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 CORONADO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CORONADO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds National Center for Science Education ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Emerald Keepers ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO PERFORMING ARTS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CORONADO ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION 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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Allan and Lyndsey Arendsee Family Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Johanna Anderson Trueblood Foundation Inc · L Robert & Patricia Payne Family Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dianne & Thomas Lookabaugh 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.