· Private foundation
Thomas Ohana 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS | $300,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| A STEP BEYOND | $60,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DOORS OF CHANGE | $37,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $37,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO | $37,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MAKI INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GVGLOBAL VOLUNTEERS9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +37%
- ASA Step Beyond9× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue +67%
- MSMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT8× · 2018–2025 · $480k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- ECEVA CARLSON ACADEMY FBO STEPHANIE Rone grant, 2017 · $100k
- WTWESTSIDE TREATMENT FBO SHIRA MILLERone grant, 2017 · $73k
- THTHE HEIGHTS TREATMENT FBO SHIRA MILone grant, 2017 · $28k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
How this is measured
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 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GLOBAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Doors of Change ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maki International ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TALKING EYES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Country Friends · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas Ohana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Ohana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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