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North County Advocates

To preserve and protect the quality of life, environment and character of coastal north county of san diego, especially la costa and encinitas from the negative impacts of excessive development, increased traffic, (continued on schedule o)

$26k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
5
Organizations funded FY2020
40%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$8,208
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$265k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 40% of the organizations North County Advocates funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20
EnvironmentOther
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
FY20205$26k40%
FY20184$15k75%
FY20173$26kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Environment$52kCommunity Improvement$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Buena Vista Audubon Society$20,00011%
Preserve Calavera$15,000213%
Center for Natural Lands Management$10,25020%
Citizens for a Friendly Airport$7,5302n/a
Shoreline Study Center Inc$4,1001n/a
Oceanside Soar$2,0001n/a
Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation$60520%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to North County Advocates?

Find your warmest path to North County Advocates through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About North County Advocates

How much does North County Advocates give?
North County Advocates reported 5 grants totaling $26,371 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does North County Advocates fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Community Improvement (23%).
Who are North County Advocates's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Buena Vista Audubon Society ($20k), Preserve Calavera ($15k), Center for Natural Lands Management ($10k).
Does North County Advocates fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as North County Advocates?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is North County Advocates based?
North County Advocates 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 8 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $1k 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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