· Private foundation
Toby Wells Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF POWAY | $4,703 |
| SD COUNTY OF PROSPERITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RANCHO BERNARDO SUNRISE ROTARY | $996 |
| RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $750 |
| MSACP | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170 |
| SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $116 |
| FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION | $25 |
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 (FY19–22, $460) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SISoroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 1132185× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +82%
- SKSOCCER KIDS OF AMERICA7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +25%
- FFFROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SOSOROPTIMIST OF N SAN DIEGOone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FFFACEBOOK FUNDRAISERSone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…
To bind the members together in a closer bond of fraternity for mutual protection, to assist members and their families in sickness, distress, and death, and to promote and improve social relations and welfare among the members.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
San diego coastkeeper (organization) is a california nonprofit public benefit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring fishable, swimmable and drinakable water in san diego county.
Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans
Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.
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,…
To increase awareness and action toward issues impacting seniors and to increase philanthropy to senior-focused organizations. together, we can create a future where seniors are no longer vulnerable but vibrant.
The san diego police officers association was incorporated in 1953 to assist san diego police officers in issues related to wages, hours and working conditions.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
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.
See schedule o.the exempt purpose of san diego charitable real estate foundation is to support san diego foundation in its mission to promote and increase responsible and effective philanthropy by accepting, managing and marketing real…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Soccer Kids of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 71 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 Soroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218 ↗
- Who funds SOCCER KIDS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds NORTH SAN DIEGO BUSINESS CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FROSTED FACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
- Who funds UNRAVEL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST CO INC ↗
- Who funds POWAY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION 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 · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Toby Wells 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.