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Coastal Community Foundation
The mission of COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to enhance the quality of life in san diego north county by directing philanthropic efforts toward community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $350,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $536,875 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $186,175 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INEWSOURCE | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $37,500 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $31,500 |
| MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA | $26,500 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $25,000 |
| MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| END OF LIFE CHOICES CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $20,000 |
| MAGDALENA ECKE FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGUITO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +89%
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER6× · 2018–2024 · $297k · revenue +190%- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ICIMPACT CUBEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $89k · revenue +116%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $83k · revenue +27%
- GAGARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hope for the Fatherless. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
102 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. 102 of the 117 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds END OF LIFE CHOICES CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CUBED ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA VALLEY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds NATURE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
- Who funds GARY AND MARY WEST SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds Shalom Center ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA GOLDEN TRIANGLE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Leichtag Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Cushman Foundation
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 Coastal Community 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.
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