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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.

$562k
Granted FY2026still arriving
17
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$678kHealth$128kPublic Benefit$123kRecreation & Sports$112kHousing & Shelter$57kArts & Culture$27kEducation$26kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2026 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $418,820, the rows itemized in this filing. The $561,918 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $143,098 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$777k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IDAHO BASECAMP$180,000
CITY OF SAN DIEGO$50,000
DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC$27,500
HIGHLANDS SENIOR CITIZENS GROUP JACUMBA CALIFORNIA$25,000
NORTH COUNTY LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTER$22,000
CASA FAMILIAR INC$15,000
SENIOR TECH CONNECT LLC$12,600
CITY OF OCEANSIDE$11,450
DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL$10,000
AMES PRODUCTIONS$10,000
BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
FALLBROOK HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PENINSULA SHEPHERD CENTER PCSC$8,600
PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES INC$8,000
CITY OF CHULA VISTA$6,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $374k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER: $19k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $18k → 11%LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%LA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $27k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR INC: $15k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 11%TIERRASANTA VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $6k → 11%FALLBROOK SENIOR CENTER: $55k → 11%FALLBROOK SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CLUB: $41k → 11%FALLBROOK SENIOR CENTER: $31k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $17k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $12k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $36k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $14k → 11%SOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SD: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$981k · 18 repeat orgs$600k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$981k
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+46%

Still filing today

67%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LF
    LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $81k · revenue +16%
  • FH
    Fallbrook Healthcare Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2026 · $72k · revenue +22%
  • PS
    Peninsula Shepherd Center PCSC
    4× · 2021–2026 · $65k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +46%
  • EP
    ESCONDIDO POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $39k
  • MC
    MYSENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ezra Center of California

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…

Human Services
2
Southside Senior Citizen Center

Adults day care

Human Services
3
Rancho Bernardo Senior Services

Providing Free Information and Various Services to Senior Citizens

—
4
San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society
Health
5
La Familia Senior Community Center
—
6
Blind Community Center of San Diego

Provide recreation, social, and educational activities for blind and visually impaired persons.

—
7
Borrego Springs Youth and Senior Center

Provide senior citizens with nutritional meals onsight and by delivery to homebound seniors. To operate a children's center providing services to children and families of Borrego Springs that combat educational inequality, poverty and food…

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8
Santa Ynez Valley Outreach Center

Social welfare & activities

Education
9
El Paso Fountain Valley Senior Citizen Program

Our mission is to provide quality and comprehensive services and activities to older adults.

—
10
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
11
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
12
San Diego County Philatelic Council

To promote stamp collecting

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled Services Advisory Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Idaho Base Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $81,000 · OtherLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN D…Peninsula Shepherd Center PCSC: $65,467 · OtherPeninsula Shepherd Center PCSCCITY OF IMPERIAL BEACH PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTME: $60,935 · OtherCITY OF IMPERIAL BEACH PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTM…city of san diego: $50,000 · Othercity of san diegoCITY OF SAN MARCOS: $44,264 · OtherCITY OF SAN MARCOSESCONDIDO POLICE DEPARTMENT: $38,854 · OtherESCONDIDO POLICE DEPARTMENTCITY OF CHULA VISTA: $35,500 · OtherCity of Poway: $33,768 · OtherCITY OF OCEANSIDE: $32,450 · OtherMYSENIOR CENTER: $30,259 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $25,200 · OtherHIGHLANDS SENIOR CITIZENS GROUP JACUMBA CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $26,378 · Other+12 more: $146,030 · Other+12 moreFallbrook Senior Citizens Service Club: $126,972 · Human ServicesFallbrook Senior Citizens Se…SERVING SENIORS: $49,950 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORSLA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER: $48,000 · Human ServicesLA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTERNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $47,285 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSNDEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DMCC: $28,500 · Human ServicesDEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTION…BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $27,861 · Human ServicesBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTERJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $27,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN…SOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN…CASA FAMILIAR INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,870 · Human ServicesIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $180,000 · EnvironmentIDAHO BASE C…DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $124,513 · Recreation & SportsFallbrook Healthcare Foundation Inc: $71,620 · HealthTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,034 · HealthED BROWN SENIOR CTR AT RANCHO BERNARDO: $56,750 · Housing & ShelterVILLA MUSICA: $27,200 · Arts & Culture
Other$695,105Human Services$401,938Environment$180,000Recreation & Sports$124,513Health$121,654Housing & Shelter$56,750Arts & Culture$27,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFallbrook Senior Citizens Service Club: $126,972 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetDISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC: $124,513 over 3y, 69% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $81,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFallbrook Healthcare Foundation Inc: $71,620 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPeninsula Shepherd Center PCSC: $65,467 over 4y, 13% of budgetED BROWN SENIOR CTR AT RANCHO BERNARDO: $56,750 over 2y, 39% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,034 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $49,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA JOLLA COMMUNITY CENTER: $48,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $47,285 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DMCC: $28,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $27,861 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA MUSICA: $27,200 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $26,378 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER: $16,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSN OF S D COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Sahm Family FoundationThe Parker FoundationSempra FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Thursday Club Fou…Alliance Healthcare F…Firehouse Subs Public…Scan Health PlanThe Cushman Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA34.8× affinity16 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Diego Seniors Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Diego Seniors Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    7report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to San Diego Seniors Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to San Diego Seniors Community Foundation 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.

    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 41 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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