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East County Economic Development Council

This organization exists for the purpose of supporting, helping and promoting the business community of east san diego county.

$7.4M
Granted FY2023
269
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 269 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 269 grants below total $3,105,862 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,435,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,329,618 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k33 grants · $246k
  • $10k–50k235 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$719k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESCONDIDO SENIOR ENTERPRISES$50,000
ESCONDIDO COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPME$35,000
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESC$35,000
SOUTHWESTNER COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
LOVING YOU THROUGH IT$25,000
KALUSUGAN KALAKASAN CENTER FOR HEAL$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN D$25,000
HEALTH AND HEALING FOUNDATION$25,000
SOUTH BAY FAMILY YMCA$25,000
VICTORIA TRAINING CENTER INC$25,000
MARLOW B MARTINEZ FOUNDATION 501C3$25,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,000
HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY HOUSINGWORKS$20,000
SOUTHWEST SPORTS WELLNESS FOUNDATIO$15,000
02The need
02

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 (FY23–23, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%KIDS' TURN SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $15k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $15k → 11%ESCOKIDOS: $15k → 11%ESCONDIDO SENIOR ENTERPRISES: $50k → 11%THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE: $15k → 11%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 11%TRANSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $8k → 11%SOUTH BAY FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 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.

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 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.

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San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
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
3
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
4
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
5
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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6
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
7
San Diego County Citizens' Scholars Foundation
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8
San Dieguito Surf Soccer Club

The mission of San Dieguito Surf Soccer is to provide equitable access to high-quality soccer programs that promote athletic development, personal growth, and community engagement. As a nonprofit organization, we are committed to removing…

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9
Design Forward Alliance

Advocating for Human-Centered Design as a regional approach to improve economic, social, and civic life in our community.Design Forward Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to leveraging the power of design to drive social impact.…

Community Improvement
10
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
11
Arts Education Connection San Diego

Arts Education Connection San Diego engages professional teaching artists to provide high-quality arts education programs in all art forms for students, educators, families and communities, advocating for, leading and advancing education…

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Theatre Critics Circle

The San Diego Theatre Critics Circle is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to reviewing and honoring the top achievements in San Diego professional theater. The organization is made up of 9 professional theater critics who…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Children Arts & More. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming & Visual Arts Ce…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development Organizat…Disability & Vulnerable You…Community Health Care Provi…Youth Education & Developme…Faith-Based Social ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Therapeutic Recreation & Su…History & Heritage MuseumsSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…Community Giving ClubsBusiness & Professional Ass…Charter Schools & Alternati…San Diego Community Develop…Substance Abuse Recovery Ho…San Diego Community ServicesYouth Sports LeaguesBiomedical Research Organiz…Dog Rescue and AdoptionEthnic Cultural Heritage Or…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%2/247
the rest of the field
15%
2,127/14,514

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

133 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. 133 of the 247 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/133
Grantees still filing
77/133
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+140 more — $1,662,500 · Other+140 moreCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA …SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $20,862 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO C…Pacific Lyric Association — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Lyr…MARIACHI JUVENIL DE SAN DIEGO — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMARIACHI JU…CENTER STAGE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAG…Samahan Filipino American Performing Arts & Education Center Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSamahan Fil…ArtHatch — $15,000 · Arts & CultureArtHatchPATIO PLAYHOUSE — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePATIO PLAYH…ESCONDIDO HISTORY CENTER — $15,000 · Arts & CultureESCONDIDO H…ESCONDIDO ARTS PARTNERSHIP — $15,000 · Arts & CultureESCONDIDO A…RESTORATION COMMUNITY ARTS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureRESTORATION…A Step Beyond — $15,000 · Arts & CultureA Step Beyo…STAR REPERTORY THEATRE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSTAR REPERT…ESCONDIDO CHORAL ARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePlaywrights Project — $10,000 · Arts & CultureECOVIVARIUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureESCONDIDO SENIOR ENTERPRISES — $50,000 · Human ServicesESCONDIDO …HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THROU…SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS …YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $25,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SA…TransFamily Support Services — $17,500 · Human ServicesTransFamil…THE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELIZAB…THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE ALABAS…OPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICE — $15,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION …ESCOKIDOS — $15,000 · Human ServicesESCOKIDOSKiwanis Club of Escondido Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SERVICE AGENCY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 · Human ServicesESCONDIDO COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $50,000 · EducationESCONDIDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationPalomar College Foundation — $25,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO FUTURES FOUNDATION — $17,500 · EducationJohn Paul The Great Catholic University — $15,000 · EducationDiscovery Charter School Ptc — $15,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationMIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationL R GREEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationELEMENT EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · EducationLOVING YOU THROUGH IT INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST — $17,500 · HealthSouth Bay Pioneers Inc — $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3 — $10,000 · HealthCENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC — $10,000 · HealthPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthTRI-CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthFoundation for Care Integration — $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · HealthDRUGS & DIAGNOSTICS FOR TROPICAL DISEASE — $10,000 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTSIDE THE LENS — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of San Diego — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBay Vista Methodist Heights Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,662,500Arts & Culture$275,862Human Services$247,500Education$187,500Health$157,500Youth Development$85,000Housing & Shelter$72,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetESCONDIDO COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetESCONDIDO SENIOR ENTERPRISES — $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND HEALING FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetESCONDIDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetPalomar College Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $20,862 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTransFamily Support Services — $17,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUTSIDE THE LENS — $17,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO FUTURES FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS — $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION — $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Lyric Association — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMARIACHI JUVENIL DE SAN DIEGO — $15,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCENTER STAGE THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCornerstone Therapeutic Riding Center — $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF CHULA VISTA — $15,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH HOSPICE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGAS PUNTO COM — $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOUTHWEST SPORTS WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNORTH COUNTY HEALTH PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamahan Filipino American Performing Arts & Education Center Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION PROMISE COMMUNITY SERVICE — $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHULA VISTA SUNRISE ROTARY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetArtHatch — $15,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetECOLIFE CONSERVATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPATIO PLAYHOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetESCONDIDO HISTORY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Paul The Great Catholic University — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Bay Pioneers Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH BAYFRONT SAILING ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCIVIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDiscovery Charter School Ptc — $15,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Cushman FoundationPrice Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…Jewish Community Foun…French Fund Samuel Ka…The Nordson Corporati…The Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Samuel I & John Henry…Leichtag Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA89× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Leichtag 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 East County Economic Development Council 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 247 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $19k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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