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San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudation

Our mission is to generate and distribute funds to innovative programs that enhance the quality of life for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in san diego and imperial counties.

$647k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$761kHuman Services$497kHealth$381kYouth Development$222kArts & Culture$148kEducation$115kRecreation & Sports$107kPhilanthropy$62kReligion$34kOther$470k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $335,125 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $647,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $311,975 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$13,586
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INCLUDE(ED)$104,500
HOME OF GUIDING HANDS$21,400
OCEANSIDE ART MUSEUM$15,000
CONNECTMED$15,000
PUENTA$15,000
VISTA HILL$15,000
FRED FINCH$15,000
CSUSM$15,000
UCSD NERODIVERSITY IN TECH CAMP$15,000
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$13,586
VILLA DE VIDA$11,000
ARC$10,000
GIRLS RISING$10,000
NOAH HOMES$10,000
HOPE ON THE HARD ROAD$9,880
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $464k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ARC OF IMPERIAL VALLEY: $7k → 21%Best STEP: $15k → 21%Best STEP Forward: $15k → 21%Best Step Forward: $10k → 21%Fred Finch: $14k → 11%SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNTIES DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $9k → 11%TOBY WELLS YMCA - YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $9k → 11%SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNTIES DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%San Diego Center for Children: $17k → 11%San Diego Center for Children: $15k → 11%THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%Autism Society: $5k → 11%Beacons Community Art Fair: $10k → 11%Noah Homes: $29k → 11%Noah Homes: $25k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $67k → 11%NOAH HOMES: $10k → 11%CASA DI AMICI: $8k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $21k → 11%Home of Guiding Hands: $15k → 11%Mountain Shadows: $26k → 11%HGH: $10k → 11%Mountain Shadows: $19k → 11%Community Interface Services: $13k → 11%Ivey Ranch Park: $10k → 11%Blissful Seeds: $75k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 35 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
27

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NH
    NOAH HOMES INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $138k · revenue +118%
  • UC
    United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County
    2× · 2017–2018 · $99k · revenue +3%
  • OT
    OUTSIDE THE LENS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue -8% · 56% of their budget
  • BS
    BLISSFUL SEEDS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +14% · 42% of their budget
  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
People with Disabilities Succeeding

Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.

Employment
2
Coastal Developmental Services Foundation

It is wrc's mission to support people with developmental disabilities, their families, and communities of choice by facilitating access to person-centered, culturally responsive services and resources.

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3
Abilities Oc

To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.

Human Services
4
Marin Ventures

The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…

Human Services
5
Social Development Centers Inc dba Community Employment Services

SDC, Inc. is committed to providing personalized services, which promote the interest and respect the choices of each individual. Resources and other supports will be identified and utilized to effectively impact on developing, expanding…

Human Services
6
Access to Independence of San Diego Inc

Access to independence promotes full participation of people with disabilities, to help maintain, sustain, and maximize independence.

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7
The Arc of San Antonio Inc

To improve the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and those who care for them.

Health
8
Sport Innovators

To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…

Philanthropy
9
San Andreas Regional Center

The center provides advocacy, assessment, information, and coordinated services that support individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in making informed choices and leading self-directed lives.

Human Services
10
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

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11
Star Developmental Services Inc

Offering compassionate and convenient in-home respite care for disabled loved ones and supportive living solutions in north county san diego.

Human Services
12
Alta California Regional Center Inc

The center provides diagnostic evaluations, client coordination and lifelong planning of services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families in accordance with the lanterman developmental disabilities act.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. 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 backsteadySubstance Abuse Recovery Su…Refugee & Immigrant ServicesHigher Education Support Or…Charter and Independent Sch…Christian International Mis…Public School Support Found…Performing & Visual Arts Or…Veteran Support ServicesRegional Business ChambersMembership & Fraternal Orga…
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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr16%14%5–10yr21%27%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%10%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%6%<5yr16%10%5–10yr21%45%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%6%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/75
the rest of the field
14%
2,128/14,686

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
41/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $750,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING CO…+1 more — $11,000 · Housing & ShelterNOAH HOMES INC — $137,958 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INCBLISSFUL SEEDS INC — $74,866 · Human ServicesBLISSFUL SEEDS INCHOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION — $46,400 · Human ServicesHOME OF GUIDING HAND…MOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOUNDATION — $44,409 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOU…BEST STEP FORWARD — $40,000 · Human ServicesBEST STEP FORWARDSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $36,500 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR…ARC - IMPERIAL VALLEY — $22,700 · Human Services+9 more — $94,307 · Human Services+9 moreAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC — $72,500 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO IN…PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY — $50,200 · OtherPARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRYSouthwestern College Foundation — $47,833 · OtherSouthwestern College Founda…Developmental Services Continuum Inc — $44,300 · OtherDevelopmental Services Cont…SDRC Eastlake Social Group — $28,005 · OtherUnified Esports League — $27,978 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $25,000 · OtherSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $22,785 · OtherSPORTS FOR EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETES — $59,000 · OtherSPORTS FOR EXCEPTIONAL ATHL…SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $27,950 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $61,935 · OtherRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FO…ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $24,000 · OtherOPTIONS FOR ALL INC — $25,620 · Other+17 more — $155,719 · Other+17 moreUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County — $98,532 · HealthUnited Cerebral…SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 · HealthSPECIAL NEEDS R…National Foundation For Autism Research — $45,000 · HealthNational Founda…Resounding Joy Inc — $40,000 · HealthResounding Joy …FRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $39,400 · HealthFRED FINCH YOUT…BANDING TOGETHER — $29,300 · HealthBANDING TOGETHE…AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC — $20,000 · HealthVISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthAmandas Adaptive Martial Arts — $15,000 · HealthCONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · HealthRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO — $13,586 · HealthIncludEd — $119,090 · Youth DevelopmentOUTSIDE THE LENS — $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International — $7,600 · Youth DevelopmentNEW VILLAGE ARTS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CulturePositive Action Community Theatre (PACT) — $28,500 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureArms Wide Open Corporation — $17,500 · Arts & CultureOCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTap Fever Studios — $8,500 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $8,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationUNSCRIPTED LEARNING — $20,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION — $15,000 · EducationPoway Unified School District Foundation — $10,000 · Education
Housing & Shelter$761,000Human Services$497,140Other$672,825Health$380,818Youth Development$221,690Arts & Culture$147,500Education$115,000

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 budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $750,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC — $137,958 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetIncludEd — $119,090 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County — $98,532 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOUTSIDE THE LENS — $95,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBLISSFUL SEEDS INC — $74,866 over 1y, 42% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY SAN DIEGO INC — $72,500 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $61,935 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPORTS FOR EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETES — $59,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY — $50,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $50,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetSouthwestern College Foundation — $47,833 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION — $46,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Foundation For Autism Research — $45,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN SHADOWS FOUNDATION — $44,409 over 1y, 22% of budgetDevelopmental Services Continuum Inc — $44,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetResounding Joy Inc — $40,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBEST STEP FORWARD — $40,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $39,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $36,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VILLAGE ARTS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBANDING TOGETHER — $29,300 over 2y, 10% of budgetPositive Action Community Theatre (PACT) — $28,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $27,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPTIONS FOR ALL INC — $25,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $22,785 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARC - IMPERIAL VALLEY — $22,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC — $21,919 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUNSCRIPTED LEARNING — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetArms Wide Open Corporation — $17,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmandas Adaptive Martial Arts — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER CARES INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO — $13,586 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INTERFACE SERVICES — $13,326 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO IMPERIAL COUNTIES DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC — $11,081 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoway Unified School District Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetARC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBEACONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOCEANSIDE IVEY RANCH PARK ASSOCIATION — $9,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE ON THE HARD ROAD INC — $9,880 over 1y, 6.0% 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…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…Price Philanthropies …David C Copley Founda…Boys and Girls Aid So…The Cushman FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…Walter J & Betty C Za…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Art Pratt Foundation …
The San Diego FoundationCA49.8× affinity28 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 · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Price Philanthropies Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · The Cushman Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc

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 San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foudation 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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