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Civic Community Partners Inc

Civic community partners was created to make qualified low income community investments in the county of san diego or other activities which qualify for new markets tax credit (nmtc).

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$2.9MArts & Culture$213kHousing & Shelter$100kEducation$35kEmployment$12k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $152,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIVIC COMMUNITY HOUSING$100,000
SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE$18,000
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP$12,000
SOUTH COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$12,000
THE EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MIDDLEMARCH MANAGER LLC: $175k → 11%MIDDLEMARCH MANAGER LLC: $30k → 11%NORTH PARK ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES INC DBA NORTH PARK MAIN STREET: $10k → 11%CIVIC SAN DIEGO: $676k → 11%CIVIC COMMUNITY HOUSING: $100k → 11%DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%SAN YSIDRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 11%SAN YSIDRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 11%DIAMOND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC DBA SOUTHWESTERN DIAMOND BUSINESS DISTRICT: $10k → 11%THE HOUSE OF MUSIC: $8k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $18k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $12k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%EAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10k → 11%CIVIC SAN DIEGO: $714k → 11%CIVIC SAN DIEGO: $708k → 11%CIVIC SAN DIEGO: $608k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50k → 11%DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP: $12k → 11%DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $10k → 11%EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%THE EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%DIAMOND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 11%DIAMOND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 7 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$3.1M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+10%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CIVIC SAN DIEGO
    4× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +303%
  • EC
    EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%
  • DS
    DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • ED
    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • DS
    DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • NP
    NORTH PARK ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +31%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North San Diego Business Chamber

To promote local and regional business to others.

Community Improvement
2
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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3
San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce

It is the mission of the san diego regional chamber of commerce to be the leading, most effective advocate and voice for business policy and connections in the san diego-baja california region.

—
4
Old Town Chamber of Commerce

To raise funds to improve, promote, and foster business programs in teh old town area in the city of san diego.

—
5
Building Industry Association of San Diego

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.

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6
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
7
County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce

To promote commerce for the advancement of economic development for black owned businesses within the greater San Diego area.

Community Improvement
8
San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

—
9
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
10
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
11
San Pedro Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

Promote, support and advocate the interests of the business community by actively working to develop a vital and sustainable local economy that also enhances the social and environmental resources of the community.

—
12
San Diego Community Housing Corporation

To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic San Diego; the most unlike its peers is The House of Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CIVIC SAN DIEGO: $2,706,510 · Community ImprovementCIVIC SAN DIEGO+1 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMIDDLEMARCH MANAGER LLC: $205,000 · OtherMIDDLEMARCH MA…ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $50,000 · OtherECONOMIC DEVEL…EL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · OtherEL CAJON BOULE…DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC: $32,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN SAN D…DIAMOND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · OtherDIAMOND BUSINE…+5 more: $47,000 · Other+5 moreCIVIC COMMUNITY HOUSING: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationTHE HOUSE OF MUSIC: $7,827 · Education
Community Improvement$2,726,510Other$404,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Education$37,827

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIVIC SAN DIEGO: $2,706,510 over 4y, 11% of budgetCIVIC COMMUNITY HOUSING: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEL CAJON BOULEVARD BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIAMOND BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN YSIDRO IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION DBA SAN YSIDRO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSouth County Economic Development Council: $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH PARK ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF MUSIC: $7,827 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSouthwestern College Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The San Diego Foundat…
The San Diego FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Civic Community Partners Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civic Community Partners Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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