· Private foundation
Toby Wells Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| 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 |
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 (FY19–22, $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 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 +62% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 71 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 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 POWAY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST CO INC ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Toby Wells Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Toby Wells Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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