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San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
It is the mission of the SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE to be the leading, most effective advocate and voice for business policy and connections in the san diego-baja california region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $188,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $262,876 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,126 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 $10k11 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $75,000 |
| GREATER ESCONDIDO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $12,500 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| SAN DIEGO DIVERSE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| LITTLE SAIGON SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $8,250 |
| CENTRAL SAN DIEGO BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $7,500 |
| LA JOLLA VILLAGE MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION | $6,500 |
| API INITIATIVE INC | $6,500 |
| NIKKI BUBOHA DBA AMERICA'S THAI CHAMBER | $6,500 |
| ENCINITAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,500 |
| CARLSBAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,500 |
| OCEANSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,500 |
| SAN DIEGO REGIONAL EAST COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,500 |
| LA MESA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ABASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO2× · 2022–2023 · $58k · revenue +11%
- COCounty of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +133%
- LSLEAD SAN DIEGO INC3× · 2018–2020 · $24k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TOTHE OTAY MESA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +12%
- RSRETIREMENT SECURITY INITIATIVEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue 0%
- TNTHE NATIONAL CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
It is the mission of the san diego regional chamber of commerce to be the leading, most effective advocate and voice for business policy and connections in the san diego-baja california region.
To promote local and regional business to others.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
Advancing the economic climate of the community and the quality of life for the citizens of the city of laguna beach
To raise funds to improve, promote, and foster business programs in teh old town area in the city of san diego.
To improve the economic well being of the greater san marcos area
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
To promote the commercial, industrial and civic welfare of the people of San Bernardino by encouraging the production and distribution of goods and services through the creation of more jobs and by enhancing the productivity and…
The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.
To promote a business friendly environment and to enhance the quality of life and the economy of rancho cucamonga
Chamber of Commerce - to promote businesses and serve the community of Corona Del Mar.
Promote business in chula vista, ca.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego East County Chamber and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE OTAY MESA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Escondido Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds RETIREMENT SECURITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LEAD SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ENCINITAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds La Jolla Village Merchants Association ↗
- Who funds API INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LA MESA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO EAST COUNTY CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds CARLSBAD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UNION OF PAN ASIAN COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds San Diego Fleet Week Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANA DE SAN DIEGO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce 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.
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.