San Diego Imperial Counties
San Diego, CA · EIN 33-0209048. Reported 89 grants totalling $1,204,988 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For San Diego Imperial Counties, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G84) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 28% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $15,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $104,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Included | San Diego, CA | $119,090 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blissful Seeds Inc | Poway, CA | $74,866 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Outside the Lens | San Diego, CA | $65,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Home of Guiding Hands Corporation | El Cajon, CA | $46,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Noah Homes Inc | Spring Valley, CA | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Best S T E P Forward | Calipatria, CA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Village Arts Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fred Finch Youth Center | Oakland, CA | $29,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Banding Together | San Diego, CA | $29,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Resounding Joy Inc | San Diego, CA | $28,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Autism Society San Diego Inc | San Diego, CA | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Foundation for Unified Esports | San Diego, CA | $27,978 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Outside the Lens | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Special Needs Resource Foundation of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| St Vincent De Paul Village Inc | San Diego, CA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Foundation for Autism Research | San Diego, CA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs Oceanside | Oceanside, CA | $21,919 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Diego Center for Children | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Diego Childrens Discovery Museum | Escondido, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Madeleine Sophies Training Center | El Cajon, CA | $17,785 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North County Spanish Parent Support ( San Diego Regional Center) | San Diego, CA | $17,505 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Arms Wide Open | El Cajon, CA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amanda's Adaptive Martial Arts | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University San Marcos Corporation | San Marcos, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connectmed International | Carlsbad, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oceanside Museum of Art | Oceanside, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Diego Air & Space Museum | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| U C San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vista Hill Foundation | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Developmental Services Continuum Inc | Lemon Grove, CA | $14,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fred Finch Youth Center Cares Inc | Oakland, CA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rady Childrens Hospital San Diego | San Diego, CA | $13,586 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Positive Action Community Theatre | Encinitas, CA | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Interface Services | Vista, CA | $13,326 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Southern California Inc | Long Beach, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Villa De Vida | Poway, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwestern College Foundation | Chula Vista, CA | $10,033 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Arc San Diego Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Autism Tree Project Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beacons Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girls Rising | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Poway Unified School District Foundation | Poway, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unscripted Learning | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oceanside Ivey Ranch Park Association | Oceanside, CA | $9,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hope on the Hard Road Inc | Escondido, CA | $9,880 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Xo Ranch Inc | Descanso, CA | $9,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Adjoin | San Diego, CA | $9,170 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tap Fever Studios | San Diego, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YMCA of San Diego County | San Diego, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Presbyterian Church a Corp | Westmorland, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Diego Museum of Art | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International | Santa Cruz, CA | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Di Amici Day Program | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heart and Hooves Therapy Inc | Ramona, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Plant It Again | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Autism Imperial County | El Centro, CA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
20 of 59 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Outside the Lens
visAbility teacher training workshop - Noah Homes
Supported Living Services - Amanda's Adaptive Martial Arts
Karate Kids and Cubs Program - Sd Air & Space Museum
Engage individuals with I/DDs through hands on activities - Home of Guiding Hands
Down Syndrome Awareness Week - Include(ed) Sd
Early Childhood Inclusive Program
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 49 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 16 | $153,683 | $9,950 |
| 2021 | 18 | $251,785 | $13,150 |
| 2022 | 13 | $229,133 | $13,762 |
| 2023 | 22 | $235,262 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $335,125 | $12,293 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from San Diego Imperial Counties's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 6050 Santo Road 145, San Diego, CA, 92124.
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