California · Private foundation
Issa Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Issa Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $1.6M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $22M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $1.9M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $1.8M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Issa Foundation | $20,921,313 | 1 | 84% |
| Solutions for Change Inc | $2,030,000 | 6 | 9% |
| National Conflict Resolution Center | $540,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Leap to Success | $510,000 | 6 | 26% |
| Interfaith Community Services Inc | $502,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Palomar College Foundation | $425,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Vista Inc | $405,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $335,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Angels Foster Family Agency | $220,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Operation Hope-North County Inc | $205,000 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Issa Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua · McCarthy Family Foundation Inc · Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruth
How this is measured
About Issa Family Foundation
- How much does Issa Family Foundation give?
- Issa Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,554,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Issa Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (73%), Housing & Shelter (8%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Issa Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Issa Foundation ($21M), Solutions for Change Inc ($2.0M), National Conflict Resolution Center ($540k).
- Does Issa Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Issa Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Issa Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Sempra Foundation.
- Where is Issa Family Foundation based?
- Issa Family Foundation is based in CA.
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