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Warren-Neely Foundation Inc at a glance

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Warren-Neely Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$114kFood & Nutrition$26kRecreation & Sports$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kHealth$12kYouth Development$11kHuman Services$6kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MISSION HILLS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION$2,000
GENERATIONS STEAM$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO$1,000
CHRISTIAN SURFERS$1,000
FOREVER BALBOA PARK$500
EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY$500
LAKESIDE RIVERPARK CONSERVANCE$500
VOLCAN MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Rady Children's Hospital: $3k → 11%GROWING GREAT NUTRITION: $10k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $2k → 11%GROWING GREAT NUTRITION: $5k → 14%KITCHENS FOR GOOD: $1k → 11%Growing Great Gardens: $3k → 14%RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%GROWING GREAT NUTRITION PROGRAM: $3k → 14%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%GROWING GREAT NUTRITION: $2k → 14%RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%GROWING GREAT NUTRITION PROGRAM: $1k → 14%CHRISTIAN SURFERS: $4k → 11%GROWING GREAT NUTRITION: $1k → 14%SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE: $1k → 11%CHRISTIAN SURFERS: $4k → 11%CHRISTIAN SURFERS: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO INDOOR SPORTS CLUB: $3k → 11%GRANT ELEMENTARY PTA: $3k → 11%MOON ANGELS: $1k → 11%NORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSN: $2k → 11%NORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSN: $1k → 11%North County Junior Golf Assn: $1k → 11%NORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSN: $1k → 11%JACOBS CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK: $6k → 11%FEEDING SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%BIOCOM INSTITUTE: $3k → 11%FEEDING SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%Resounding Joy: $2k → 11%GENERATIONS STEAM: $2k → 11%RESOUNDING JOY: $1k → 11%JACOBS CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 11%VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%San Diego Veteran's Village: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTSORY MUSEUM: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTSORY MUSEUM: $1k → 11%CITY OF EL CAJON RECREATION DEPT: $2k → 11%CITY OF EL CAJON RECREATION DEPT: $2k → 11%City of El Cajon Recreation Dept: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $27k → 11%SAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $25k → 11%SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $25k → 11%SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $20k → 11%SAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $5k → 11%MISSION HILLS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 22 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$201k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+28%

Still filing today

55%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NP
    NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +93%
  • RJ
    Resounding Joy Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +54%
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    2× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO INDOOR SPORTS CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -62%
  • RC
    Rady Children's Hospital
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GG
    Growing Great Gardens
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sport Innovators

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…

Philanthropy
2
San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory

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…

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3
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
4
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
5
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Parks Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
San Diego Canyonlands Inc

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.

Environment
8
San Diego Food System Alliance

produce, distribute, prepare, serve, and eat nutritional and culturally appropriate food.

Food & Nutrition
9
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
10
Ocean Discovery Institute

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…

Education
11
Earth Discovery Institute

The mission of the Earth Discovery Institute is to conduct habitat restoration and environmental education serving under-resourced youth.

Environment
12
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakesides River Park Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $32,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO MARITIME MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRISTIAN SURFERS: $8,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN SURFERSJACOBS CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK: $7,000 · OtherJACOBS CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANKMEALS ON WHEELS: $6,500 · OtherCITY OF EL CAJON RECREATION DEPT: $4,500 · OtherSAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTSORY MUSEUM: $4,200 · Other+27 more: $44,331 · Other+27 moreSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $72,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUMEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $6,000 · EducationLIFES KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · EducationLabRats San Diego: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationResounding Joy Inc: $6,000 · HealthFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBIOCOM INSTITUTE: $4,500 · Science & Tech
Other$124,031Arts & Culture$78,000Education$9,600Health$6,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Science & Tech$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $72,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetResounding Joy Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBIOCOM INSTITUTE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY: $4,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO INDOOR SPORTS CLUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLIFES KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESIDES RIVER PARK CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEAMPUNK FARMS RESCUE BARN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLabRats San Diego: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA Step Beyond: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER BALBOA PARK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLCAN MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SAN DIEGO AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
  • Who funds Resounding Joy Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BIOCOM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO INDOOR SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
  • 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 LabRats San Diego ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUNG ARTIST MUSIC ACADEM ↗
  • Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
  • Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Boys and Girls Aid So…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationThe Thomas C Ackerman…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Art Pratt Foundation …Samuel I & John Henry…
The San Diego FoundationCA26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Warren-Neely Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren-Neely Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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