San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation

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San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation

Provides services, grants and scholarships for the benefit of the developmentally disabled, provides help funds and funding for conferences, training and activities for persons with developmental disabilities.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$15k

Largest

01What you fund

0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Housing & Shelter$750kHuman Services$423kHealth$215kArts & Culture$126kYouth Development$92kEducation$85kRecreation & Sports$74kPhilanthropy$62kEmployment$26kOther$439k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

recreationhockeyemploymentskillssocialgroupconference

2020

employmentautismadultsconference

2021

creativeassistedarts

2022

advocacyintellectualautismyouthgroup

2023

fred finchfinch youthyouth caresperforming artsautism

2024

iddsartintellectual

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $53k
$10k–50k15 grants · $182k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

UCSD Nerodiversity in Tech Camp$15,000
SD Air & Space Museum$15,000
Amanda's Adaptive Martial Arts$15,000
Boys and Girls Clubs Oceanside$14,860
Include(ED) SD$14,590
Unified Esports League$14,216
Community Interface Services$13,326
San Diego Children's Discovery Museum$10,000
Beacons Community Art Fair$10,000
San Diego People First$10,000
HGH$10,000
Gigi's Playhouse$10,000
Poway Unifed Foundation - kitchen Table Acadamy (Poway Foundation)$10,000
New Village Arts$10,000
Best Step Forward$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 29 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+82%

Still filing today

86%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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 - People First
4× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue +95%
OT
Outside the Lens
3× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +367%
AS
Autsim Society
4× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +240%

Funded once

SC
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING COLLABORATIVEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue +47% · 56% of their budget
BS
Blissful Seedsgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +3183% · 42% of their budget
RC
RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - SAN DIEGOgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue +82%

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.

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

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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San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation

Health

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

California Spectrum Care Inc

California spectrum care aims to create and sustain a culture of inclusivity within the communities it serves for neurodiverse individuals.

Human Services

Down Syndrome Association of Central California

To enhance the quality of life for all people whose lives are touched by Down Syndrome

Health

Access Central Coast

To promote independent living and full access for people with disabilities through advocacy education and action in our communities.

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Miracle League of San Diego

We provide children and adults with special needs the opportunity to play baseball in an organized league at two locations in San Diego County.

Human Services

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes within communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires,and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health

Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services

Special Reach Inc

To provide dynamic enrichment programs for children with special needs and respite for their families.

Human Services

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adjoin 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.

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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/61

the rest of the field

12%

1,825/14,700

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.

05the grantee network

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/49

Grantees still filing

43/49

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Housing & Shelter$750,000Human Services$423,459Other$600,836Health$214,700Arts & Culture$125,500Youth Development$92,190Education$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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 FoundationCA45× affinity23 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 · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Boys and Girls Aid Society · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable 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 organisation San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING COLLABORATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 262583215 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOUSING COLLABORATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 56% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation?

Find your warmest path to San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation?

More from the funding graph

San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

49 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to San Diego Imperial Counties Developmental Services Foundation?

More from the funding graph