· Private foundation
Warren-Neely Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MISSION HILLS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| GENERATIONS STEAM | $1,500 |
| CHRISTIAN SURFERS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO | $1,000 |
| FOREVER BALBOA PARK | $500 |
| EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY | $500 |
| LAKESIDE RIVERPARK CONSERVANCE | $500 |
| VOLCAN MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- RJResounding Joy Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +54%
- NCNORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +89%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO2× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO INDOOR SPORTS CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -52%
- RCRady Children's Hospitalone grant, 2017 · $3k
- GGGrowing Great Gardensone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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…
Since 1945, San Diego Youth Symphony (SDYS) has served as a catalyst for investing in the future of young people through joyful and transformative music-making experiences. We reach over 2,500 students and families annually throughout San…
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To improve the quality of life of communities throughout the city of San Diego through equitable investments in parks, greenspace, and recreational opportunities.Vison - Every San Diegan has access to quality recreational facilities as…
To promote, protect and restore the natural habitats in San Diego County's canyons and creeks. We do this by fostering education and ongoing community involvement in stewardship and advocacy, and by collaborating with other organizations.
produce, distribute, prepare, serve, and eat nutritional and culturally appropriate food.
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
Ocean discovery institute the institute is a california non-profit corporation organized in 1999. to inspire the next generation of science leaders, ocean discovey institute creates learning experiences for young people traditionally…
The mission of the Earth Discovery Institute is to conduct habitat restoration and environmental education serving under-resourced youth.
Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakesides River Park Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Steampunk Farms Rescue Barn 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
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 46 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 SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Resounding Joy Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BIOCOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO INDOOR SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDES RIVER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STEAMPUNK FARMS RESCUE BARN INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds GENERATION STEAM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM ↗
- Who funds LabRats San Diego ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 Warren-Neely Foundation Inc 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.