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Witman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $32,000 |
| THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INLAND NORTH COUNTY | $11,000 |
| MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC | $8,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INLAND NORTH COUNTY | $7,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INLAND NORTH COUNTY | $6,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF INLAND NORTH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| RIDING EMPHASIZING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND STRENGTHS | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $5,000 |
| RANGERS LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE | $3,000 |
| ESCONDIDO HISTORY CENTER | $3,000 |
| SAN DIEGO AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $2,500 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC | $2,000 |
| WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $436k · revenue +35%
- ALAssistance League of Inland North County5× · 2021–2025 · $121k · revenue +61%
- MGMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SDSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +10%
- ALAmerican Legion Post 416 Foundationone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…
The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.
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.
A not-for-profit credit union wholly owned by its members
Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
The mission of the building industry association of san diego is to proactively promote a positive business environment for the land development, home building and commercial development industry throughout san diego county.
Elderhelp of san diego, inc. is a california non-profit public benefit corporation formed for the purpose of providing personalized services, information, and coordinated care to help san diego's seniors remain independent and live with…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
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.
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 support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 416 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Inland North County ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds ESCONDIDO HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Ag in the Classroom ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds ECOLIFE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post 416 Foundation ↗
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: Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Witman Family 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.