California · Public charity
The Country Friends
The organization's sole purpose is to raise money to support human care agencies with emphasis on those providing services to women, children, and the elderly for the purpose of helping people to help themselves.
- $303k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2025
- $248k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $878k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations The Country Friends funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $248k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $159k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $115k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $127k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $205k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $214k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vista Hill Foundation | $51,013 | 6 | 0% |
| Womens Resource Center | $46,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Casa De Amparo | $37,059 | 5 | 0% |
| Generatehope Inc | $31,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Mitchell Thorp Foundation | $31,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Greater la Jolla Meals on Wheels Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Include Autism | $25,990 | 5 | n/a |
| Reality Changers | $24,988 | 4 | 0% |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Promises2kids Foundation | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 99 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Country Friends supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation
How this is measured
About The Country Friends
- How much does The Country Friends give?
- The Country Friends reported 23 itemized grants totaling $247,793, out of $302,793 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Country Friends fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (23%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are The Country Friends's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vista Hill Foundation ($51k), Womens Resource Center ($47k), Casa De Amparo ($37k).
- Does The Country Friends fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Country Friends?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, David C Copley Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
- Where is The Country Friends based?
- The Country Friends is based in CA.
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