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The San Diego Women's Foundation

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$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
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$763kInternational$265kCrime & Legal$233kYouth Development$230kHousing & Shelter$193kEducation$189kFood & Nutrition$160kCommunity Improvement$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO$60,000
SERVING SENIORS$60,000
SAY SAN DIEGO$37,500
CASA FAMILIAR$30,000
BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COALITION$10,000
URBAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECT$10,000
HARVEY FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
SANDIEGO350$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $756k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $60k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $38k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $38k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $36k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $35k → 11%GENERATE HOPE INC: $60k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $30k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 11%CASA FAMILIAR: $30k → 11%BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $29k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $30k → 11%OLIVEWOOD GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC: $30k → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICAN SUPPORT TEAM: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO AFGHAN REFUGEES AID GROUP: $6k → 11%LICENSE TO FREEDOM: $6k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $25k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $50k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $60k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $50k → 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$887k · 10 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
43

Total granted

$887k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+41%

Still filing today

90%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • EO
    ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2021–2025 · $126k · revenue +1%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +38%
  • SA
    SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • MM
    MENDING MATTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • FT
    FREE TO THRIVE
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -89%
  • GI
    GENERATEHOPE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +1%
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
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
2
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
3
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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4
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…

Human Services
5
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
6
Community Health Improvement Partners

The mission of community health improvement partners is to advance sustainable solutions to priority health needs through collaboration and community engagement.

Health
7
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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8
Institute for Public Strategies

Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…

Health
9
Crisis House

The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.

Human Services
10
Somali Family Service of San Diego

Somali Family Service, guided by its community champions, empowers immigrants, refugees and other underserved communities in San Diego through its programs that promote health, educational and economic success, and leadership development.

Human Services
11
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
12
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans

We advocate for the full economic, social, and civic inclusion of refugees and displaced populations in the San Diego region, throughout California, and across the country.

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

56 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. 56 of the 61 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $126,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGOSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INCSERVING SENIORS: $110,000 · Human ServicesSERVING SENIORSSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONAL: $79,450 · Human ServicesSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONALBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTERGENERATEHOPE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesGENERATEHOPE INCTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT: $56,078 · Human ServicesTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECTFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $50,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORSJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO+10 more: $190,477 · Human Services+10 moreFREE TO THRIVE: $75,000 · OtherFREE TO THRIVEPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $60,000 · OtherPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVIC…COASTAL ROOTS FARM: $50,000 · OtherCOASTAL ROOTS FARMKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $50,000 · OtherKITCHENS FOR GOODPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $41,769 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATIONALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $30,000 · OtherURBAN GROWTH: $30,000 · OtherTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $28,226 · OtherTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF: $25,000 · OtherCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $50,000 · OtherCasa Cornelia Legal ServicesAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $30,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDRENGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM: $30,000 · Other+9 more: $117,042 · Other+9 moreMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $125,000 · EducationMONARCH SCH…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $54,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANI…Think Dignity: $50,000 · EducationThink Digni…Traveling Stories: $10,000 · EducationMENDING MATTERS: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENDING MA…JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TI…DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID'S HA…Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys to Me…INDIGENOUS REGENERATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentINDIGENOUS…Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban: $14,687 · Youth DevelopmentDepositing…International Rescue Committee INC: $110,000 · InternationalInternati…PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · InternationalPROJECT C…THE AJA PROJECT: $35,000 · InternationalTHE AJA P…THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $66,000 · HealthSouthern Indian Health Council: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3: $10,000 · HealthLOGAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECT DBA URBAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$902,005Other$692,037Education$239,000Youth Development$234,687International$195,000Health$91,000Community Improvement$90,000

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 budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $126,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVORS OF TORTURE INTERNATIONAL: $79,450 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMENDING MATTERS: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFREE TO THRIVE: $75,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $66,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPALOMAR FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOASTAL ROOTS FARM: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThink Dignity: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLOGAN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $41,769 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AJA PROJECT: $35,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services: $29,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS LEGAL SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $28,226 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Indian Health Council: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS REGENERATION: $15,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetUnited Women of East Africa Support Team: $14,687 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDepositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban: $14,687 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTraveling Stories: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS CALIFORNIA CHAPTER 3: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANDIEGO350: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…Alliance Healthcare F…Catalyst of San Diego…The Parker FoundationSempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationThe Country Friends
The San Diego FoundationCA80.2× affinity44 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 · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · The Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Country Friends

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 San Diego Women's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The San Diego Women's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    28report 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 61 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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