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San Diego Seniors Community Foundation
To increase awareness and action toward issues impacting seniors and to increase philanthropy to senior-focused organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $237,524 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $285,999 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,475 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL | $57,470 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SENIOR CARE | $55,000 |
| ED BROWN SENIOR CENTER OF RANCHO BERNARDO | $37,450 |
| CITY OF SAN MARCOS | $17,154 |
| CITY OF CHULA VISTA | $16,100 |
| LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| OUTDOORS EMPOWERED NETWORK | $15,000 |
| DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $12,000 |
| CITY OF POWAY | $6,350 |
| LET'S PLAY A GAME FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- LFLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY3× · 2022–2024 · $81k · revenue +16%
- FHFallbrook Healthcare Foundation Inc2× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +22%
- PSPeninsula Shepherd Center PCSC3× · 2021–2024 · $57k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +46%
- EPESCONDIDO POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $39k
- MCMYSENIOR CENTERone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
The mission of the Ezra Center is to provide a variety of activities and services to meet the needs of the mature population of Orange County. We believe that healthy well-motivated and challenged individuals are most likely to be happiest…
To promote stamp collecting
Adults day care
Providing Free Information and Various Services to Senior Citizens
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…
Provide recreation, social, and educational activities for blind and visually impaired persons.
Law enforcement agencies in today's environment find it difficult to cope with the magnitude of crime without the involved support of business, media and community. Since 1981, the San Diego County Crime Commission has built public…
Operate clinics to providing primary healthcare to people of all ages in imperial beach and surrounding communities and southwest San Diego county place emphasis on patient satisfaction in a sensitive environment.
To increase, preserve and improve quality affordable housing opportunities for working families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Honorary Deputy Sheriffs Assn of S D County. 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.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 Fallbrook Senior Citizens Service Club ↗
- Who funds DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Fallbrook Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Peninsula Shepherd Center PCSC ↗
- Who funds ED BROWN SENIOR CTR AT RANCHO BERNARDO ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DMCC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds VILLA MUSICA ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUTDOORS EMPOWERED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSN OF S D COUNTY ↗
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 · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sahm Family Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Thursday Club Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Scan Health Plan · The Cushman 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 Seniors Community 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.
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.
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