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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$352kHealth$286kYouth Development$131kHousing & Shelter$96kFood & Nutrition$90kAnimals$50kEmployment$45kEducation$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $247,793, the rows itemized in this filing. The $302,793 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $213k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$878k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES$18,000
GIRLS RISING$15,000
VOICE FOR OUR CITY CHOIR$15,000
PROMISES 2 KIDS$15,000
RISE UP INDUSTRIES$14,130
BE A FRIEND-IMPACT A LIFE$12,400
RITECARE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE$12,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA$11,763
A STEP BEYOND$10,000
PROJECT NEXT-SAN MARCOS PROMI$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
EMILIO NARES$10,000
MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION$10,000
OLIVE WOOD GARDENS & LEARNING$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ARMED SERVICES YMCA: $12k → 7%WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 11%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%BURN INSTITUTE-SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%KID'S TURN: $5k → 11%BURN INSTITUTE-SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $5k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $4k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $10k → 11%KIDS' TURN: $4k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $10k → 11%GENERATE HOPE: $8k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%MIRACLE BABIES: $4k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%MANA DE SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL: $3k → 11%ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%HELEN WOODWARD: $4k → 11%OLIVE WOOD GARDENS & LEARNING: $10k → 11%OLIVE WOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF NORTH COAST: $4k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $3k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 11%LIGHT BRIDGE HOSPICE: $13k → 11%LIGHT BRIDGE HOSPICE: $5k → 11%MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MITCHELL THORP FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE: $5k → 11%LIGHT BRIDGE HOSPICE: $5k → 11%ONCOLOGY & KIDS: $8k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $15k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $10k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $14k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $8k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 11%SHORELINE COMM SERVICES: $6k → 11%BORDER VIEW FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 11%MAMA'S KITCHEN: $6k → 11%MAMAS KITCHEN: $4k → 11%HANDSON SAN DIEGO: $4k → 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$888k · 56 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
39

Total granted

$888k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+33%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VH
    VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +24%
  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    5× · 2018–2022 · $37k · revenue +43%
  • MT
    Mitchell Thorp Foundation
    5× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +445%

Funded once

  • MR
    MAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -91%
  • LC
    LA COLONIA DE EDEN GARDENS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +10%
  • JC
    JACOBS & CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Dreams for Change Inc

Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.

Human Services
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
Childrens Legal Services of San Diego

The purpose of providing legal representation and advocacy to foster children and youth in the San Diego County courts.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
5
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
6
Hannahs Family Center

Hannahs Family Center envisions a world where strong families enable children to thrive and communities to prosper. Since 1993, we have helped San Diego families navigate significant adverse changes, trauma and loss. As experts in…

Education
7
Jewish Family Service of San Diego

Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.

Human Services
8
Urban Street Angels Inc

Founded in 2012, urban street angels is a san diego native 501(c)3 attentive to supporting homeless youth through supportive housing, peer support, mentorship, mental health counseling, and job training initiatives, in order to develop a…

Religion
9
San Diegans for Health Care Coverage

Promote Access to Health Care for all San Diegans

Health
10
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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11
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement
12
San Diego Center for Children

Founded in 1887, the center is the oldest children's nonprofit in the region accredited by the joint commission for its excellence in quality of care. the center provides a continuum of therapeutic & educational services to youth &…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego; the most unlike its peers is Maya Relief Foundation. 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

97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/97
Grantees still filing
70/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $46,500 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTERCasa De Amparo: $37,059 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoGENERATEHOPE INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INCMitchell Thorp Foundation: $31,500 · Human ServicesMitchell Thorp FoundationRise Up Industries: $22,130 · Human ServicesRise Up IndustriesWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $18,000 · Human ServicesOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $13,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMIRACLE BABIES: $12,000 · Human Services+15 more: $102,497 · Human Services+15 moreGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $26,000 · OtherINCLUDE AUTISM: $25,990 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $24,000 · OtherKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $20,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $19,300 · OtherELIZABETH HOSPICE: $18,650 · OtherMAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+46 more: $366,139 · Other+46 moreVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $51,013 · HealthVISTA HILL F…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $20,000 · HealthCENTER FOR C…PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,216 · HealthPALOMAR HEAL…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $12,400 · HealthLUCKY DUCK F…Emilio Nares Foundation: $11,500 · HealthEmilio Nares…CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL: $11,000 · HealthCONNECTMED I…Ronald McDonald House Global: $10,000 · HealthRonald McDon…+2 more: $6,500 · HealthREALITY CHANGERS: $24,988 · EducationREALITY C…CALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION: $19,111 · EducationCALIFORNI…Think Dignity: $17,000 · EducationThink Dig…THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE: $10,000 · EducationTHE SAN M…Special Delivery San Diego: $10,000 · EducationSpecial D…MANA DE SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · EducationMANA DE S…MUSICIANS FOR EDUCATION INC DBA STREET OF DREAMS: $5,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $24,000 · AnimalsSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,500 · AnimalsSAVING HORSES INC: $5,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $22,033 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterDoors of Change: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterA Step Beyond: $18,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVIA INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$355,186Other$520,079Health$137,629Education$100,099Animals$45,500Housing & Shelter$37,033Arts & Culture$36,000

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 budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $51,013 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $46,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $37,059 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMitchell Thorp Foundation: $31,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $26,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $24,988 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRise Up Industries: $22,130 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $22,033 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK: $19,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION: $19,111 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWALDEN ENVIRONMENT DBA WALDEN FAMILY SERVICES: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Step Beyond: $18,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThink Dignity: $17,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,216 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLA COLONIA DE EDEN GARDENS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vision of Children: $14,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $13,625 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAMPERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $13,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $12,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIRACLE BABIES: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA: $11,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL: $11,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COUNTRY FRIENDS: $10,124 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSan Diego Brain Injury Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SAN MARCOS PROMISE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWALDEN FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRiding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSpecial Delivery San Diego: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMANA DE SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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…David C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…Pratt Memorial FundWalter J & Betty C Za…The Nordson Corporati…Sempra FoundationThe Parker Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA100.9× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Country Friends funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Country Friends. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    48report 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.

    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 106 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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