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ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties

ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties, Inc. (the Foundation) is a California Nonprofit Corporation (exempt under Section 501(c)(3)) incorporated on December 23, 1988. The Foundation works to protect and expand fairness, equity, and freedom through community engagement, building power, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

$30k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$25k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$8.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$25k100%
FY20192$75kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Public Benefit$50kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PAC$50,0001n/a
Make Housing Affordable - Yes on Prop 10$25,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

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About ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties

How much does ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties give?
ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties reported 1 itemized grants totaling $25,000, out of $30,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (50%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Youth Development (25%).
Who are ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: San Diegans for Full Voter Participation Sponsored by SEIU Local 221 PAC ($50k), Make Housing Affordable - Yes on Prop 10 ($25k).
Does ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties based?
ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties is based in CA.

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 3 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $7k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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