How much did BID FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

BID FOUNDATION reported 22 grants totaling $631,634 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

BID FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

BID FOUNDATION

Enhance the physical, social and economic environment of the business improvement districts in san diego.

$632k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$43k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k19 grants · $606k

$34,624

Median grant

States reached

$282k

Total assets

Largest grants

DISCOVER PACIFIC BEACH$42,554
LA JOLLA VILLAGE MERCHANTS$40,404
HILLCREST BUSINESS ASSOC INC$40,192
EL CAJON BLVD BUS IMPRV ASSOC$37,573
DOWNTOWN SD PARTNERSHIP INC$36,451
EAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC$35,839
LITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION$35,678
ADAMS AVENUE BUSINESS ASSOC$35,245
NORTH PARK ORG OF BUS INC$35,024
COLLEGE AREA ECONOMIC DEV COR$34,675
CITY HEIGHTS CDC$34,624
CENTRAL SD BLACK CHAMBER COMM$34,071
MISSION HILLS BUS IMPRV DISTR$33,774
OLD TOWN SD CHAMBER OF COMMER$33,630
GASLAMP QUARTER ASSOC INC$32,967

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Building Industry Association

Representing the building industry by influencing decisions that affect the ability to build and develop in san diego county. provide the platform for effective networking for members' companies. enhancing the industry's credibility as a…

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Downtown Berkeley Association

The Downtown Berkeley Association works to strengthen the Downtown as a vibrant and welcoming urban destination for arts, culture, and commerce through effective advocacy, prmotion and direct services.

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Chula Vista Chamber of Commerce

Promote business in chula vista, ca.

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Downtown Chico Business Association

Promote interest and trade and beautify the downtown business environment.

Community Improvement

Escondido Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the voice for businesses in Escondido providing leadership and guidance for the local small business community.

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The Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce

To enhance employment and economic opportunities in otay mesa and develop a competitive and increased export base in san diego.

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South County Economic Development Council

Job Creation in South San Diego County

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Sunset Park District Management

To promote the economic growth and well being of the businesses in the business improvement district through improving neighborhood conditions and the environment.

Community Improvement

Santa Barbara South Coast

The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.

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San Diego Coasters

Arts & Culture

San Diego East County Chamber Fdn

The corporation was formed for public and charitable purposes including, without limitation, to operate a non profit organization to promote better understanding of business and its integral role in community development in the east san…

Crime & Legal

Voice of San Diego

Investigative journalism for a better san diego.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Village Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Thomas Jefferson Elementary. 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 30 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

12%

1,826/14,739

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.

03the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$291,515Community Improvement$275,941Arts & Culture$35,678Education$17,500Environment$7,500

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.

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.

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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 organisation BID 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTH PARK BUSINESS GROUP INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454017258 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTH PARK BUSINESS GROUP INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Bid Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BID FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bid Foundation?

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BID FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bid Foundation?

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