· Private foundation
Walter J & Betty C Zable 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT (STEP) | $3,100,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA AT CAMP PENDLETON | $250,000 |
| OUTDOOR OUTREACH | $150,000 |
| FREE TO THRIVE | $150,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD | $125,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $100,000 |
| CASA DE AMPARO | $100,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SD | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC | $60,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SD COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| SAN DIEGO PARKS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CRISIS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $50,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $50,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +45% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
158 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 88 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +343% · 41% of their budget
- TITERI Inc3× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +60%
- NCNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +93%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $200k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TPTHRIVE PUBLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -82%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…
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.
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
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,…
How this is measured
178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 222 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
- Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FREE TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of North County ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
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: David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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