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Don Diego Scholarship Foundation

The DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION provides annual scholarships to outstanding san diego county high school seniors who have participated in the san diego county fair or other del mar fairgrounds events it also gives grants for agricultural education.

$92k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,210
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,210
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Don Diego Scholarship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$6k0%
FY20232$11k100%
FY20192$36k50%
FY20181$13k0%
FY20171$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$52kPhilanthropy$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Diego Unified School District$34,9153n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

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About Don Diego Scholarship Foundation

How much does Don Diego Scholarship Foundation give?
Don Diego Scholarship Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,210, out of $91,871 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Don Diego Scholarship Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Philanthropy (32%).
Who are Don Diego Scholarship Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Diego Unified School District ($35k).
Does Don Diego Scholarship Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Don Diego Scholarship Foundation based?
Don Diego Scholarship Foundation 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 4 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 2024, released 2024. 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 $161k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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