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Catholic Community Foundation of San Diego

The purpose of this organization is to foster a culture of catholic stewardship, providing a platform where people can connect, learn, and actively contribute to the well being of our society through catholic principles.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$283k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.5MReligion$659kInternational$579kHuman Services$436kHousing & Shelter$220kPhilanthropy$135kHealth$91kCrime & Legal$60kPublic Benefit$42kOther$2.0M
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 35 grants below total $1,690,642 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,820,205 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $129,563 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $335k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $283k
$22,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HS$283,000
Dynamic Catholic Institute$205,600
NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY$160,000
SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL$150,000
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS$140,000
EAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIV$100,000
BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF SD$80,000
FATHER JOES VILLAGES$68,200
Union Rescue Mission$55,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITI$50,000
Inst of Reproductive Grief$41,750
WHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CON$33,600
BUILD A MIRACLE$30,000
St Vincent de Paul Parish$30,000
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE SD$28,400
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $394k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Union Rescue Mission: $75k → 14%Union Rescue Mission: $55k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE SD: $10k → 11%DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%LIFE PERSPECTIVES: $27k → 11%LIFE PERSPECTIVES: $12k → 11%GENERATEHOPE INC: $7k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $16k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $13k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $23k → 11%LIFE PERSPECTIVES: $41k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $26k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $26k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $25k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $25k → 11%Serving Seniors: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
IL
WI
MI
OH
PA
CA
KY
MD
AZ
HI
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 32 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
17

Total granted

$5.4M
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+34%

Still filing today

81%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CR
    CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +750% · 40% of their budget
  • TD
    THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $411k · revenue +16%
  • NP
    NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $379k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SC
    SAINT CHARLES OF BORROMEO CATHOLIC PARISH IN SAN DIEGO CA REAL PROP S
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • NH
    NOAH HOMES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +118%
  • TP
    TOTUS PRO DEO
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
3
San Diego Christian College

San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.

Education
4
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
5
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
6
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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7
California Catholic Conference Inc

The mission of the california catholic conference, inc. (ccc) is to advocate with the legislative, administrative, and judicial branches of state government for the catholic church's public policy agenda and to facilitate common pastoral…

Religion
8
Charities Housing Development Corp of Santa Clara County

To develop, preserve, & manage high quality affordable housing for low-income individuals & their families. through service enhanced property management & structured resident involvement, chdc contributes to the highest standards of human…

Housing & Shelter
9
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
10
Conviventia

In obedience to the divine mandate of loving one another and committed to the proclamation of the truth and the word of God, Conviventia's mission is to work toward a world in which all people can live in freedom, with dignity and…

International
11
San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation

San diego interfaith housing foundation's mission is to sponsor and assist in the development of quality low cost, single and multi-family housing for low income and handicapped persons in the greater san diego metropolitan area.

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12
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Barbers for Baja Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%23%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,922

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 56 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $1,139,370 · OtherWHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CENTER …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $163,100 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY…ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGO — $156,853 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SAN DIEGOSAINT CHARLES OF BORROMEO CATHOLIC PARISH IN SAN DIEGO CA REAL PROP S — $100,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC — $80,000 · OtherSAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $75,000 · Other+24 more — $519,808 · Other+24 moreCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,044,165 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SC…NATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC — $379,000 · EducationNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN…+4 more — $40,180 · EducationTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $411,200 · ReligionTHE DYNAMIC C…ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $142,200 · ReligionST VINCENT DE…THE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC INC — $85,000 · ReligionTHE EVANGELIC…+2 more — $21,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $322,250 · InternationalINTERNATION…SERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL — $257,015 · InternationalSERVING HAN…UNION RESCUE MISSION — $130,000 · Human ServicesLIFE PERSPECTIVES — $121,250 · Human ServicesRise Up Industries — $101,250 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $28,500 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO — $15,050 · Human Services+2 more — $17,200 · Human ServicesEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER — $202,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBUILD A MIRACLE — $106,000 · PhilanthropySAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $23,800 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION — $5,467 · Philanthropy
Other$2,234,131Education$1,463,345Religion$659,400International$579,265Human Services$435,750Housing & Shelter$220,000Philanthropy$135,267

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHISPERING WINDS CATHOLIC CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $1,139,370 over 4y, 33% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,044,165 over 3y, 40% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $411,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIVITY PREP ACADEMY OF SAN DIEGO INC — $379,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $322,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSERVING HANDS INTERNATIONAL — $257,015 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetEAST COUNTY TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER — $202,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $163,100 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $142,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $130,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE PERSPECTIVES — $121,250 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetBUILD A MIRACLE — $106,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetRise Up Industries — $101,250 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC INC — $85,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORD AMONG US INC — $43,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $41,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $39,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $28,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $23,800 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTOTUS PRO DEO — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO — $15,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMidland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Services — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $14,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERTON ACADEMY OF THE HOLY FAMI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANDMA LULUS TABLE — $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVING SENIORS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $8,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThrive Wellness Collective — $7,500 over 1y, 44% of budgetNAPILI KAI FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC — $7,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBarbers For Baja Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION — $5,467 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

David C Copley Founda…The Rotary Foundation…The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Parker FoundationKnights of Columbus C…The Country Friends
David C Copley FoundationCA38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David C Copley Foundation · The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Country Friends

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 Catholic Community Foundation of San Diego 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Catholic Community Foundation of San Diego?

    Find your warmest path to Catholic Community Foundation of San Diego through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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