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· Public charity

United Way of San Diego County

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

$97k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 2024.

Human Services$3.3MEducation$1.0MEmployment$525kCivil Rights$464kHealth$261kInternational$195kArts & Culture$178kCommunity Improvement$128kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,600 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$25,000
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 (FY17–22, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Chicano Fed of SD County: $43k → 11%Chicano Fed of SD County: $16k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $74k → 11%2-1-1 SAN DIEGO: $62k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $55k → 11%YMCA of SD County: $33k → 11%YMCA of San Diego County: $14k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $6k → 11%Union of Pan Asian Comm: $90k → 11%CASA Familiar: $48k → 11%Union of Pan Asian Communities: $25k → 11%Bayside Community Center: $18k → 11%CASA Familiar: $20k → 11%Bayside Community Center: $10k → 11%Pillars of the Community: $18k → 11%MAAC Project: $181k → 11%MAAC Project: $8k → 11%North County Lifeline: $180k → 11%South Bay Community Services: $68k → 11%Nile Sisters Dev Initiative: $24k → 11%License To Freedom: $8k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $200k → 11%Partnership Adv of New Americans: $211k → 11%Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans: $25k → 11%Somali Family Service of SD: $16k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 31 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
38

Total granted

$4.6M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+38%

Still filing today

87%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • DF
    DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +723% · 32% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $449k · revenue +94%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2017–2020 · $380k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • SD
    San Diego Community College Auxiliary Organizationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $267k · revenue +139% · 51% of their budget
  • CONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER
    one grant, 2017 · $234k · revenue -32%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2023 · $164k · revenue +38%
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
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno

Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.

International
3
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
4
Urban League of San Diego County

Assist African Americans and other underserved people in San Diego County to acheive social and economic equality through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research.

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5
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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6
Community Information Exchange
Health
7
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
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
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
10
Los Amigos De La Comunidad Inc

To increase the capacity of the underserved communities of the Imperial Valley and intertwined regions facing socio-economic and environmental injustices, health care access disparities and institutional discrimination. Los Amigos de la…

Public Benefit
11
Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective

The Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective creates a safe space for immigrant youth to express themselves and achieve their full potential and their identity that intersects with being undocumented. Through grassroots organizing, our…

Human Services
12
1 San Diego

Dedicated to promoting equal access to economic prosperity, safe and vibrant communities, and an enhanced quality of life to ensure every san diegan has the opportunity to succeed. one san diego supports the interest of neighborhoods…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans; the most unlike its peers is We Support U. 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

63 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. 63 of the 70 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
40/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $1,186,220 · Human ServicesDREAMS FOR CHANGE INCNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $380,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SE…PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $235,642 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANSMetropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc: $188,660 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Povert…INFO LINE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $140,920 · Human ServicesMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $127,542 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $127,234 · Human ServicesUNION OF PAN ASIAN COMMUNITIES: $114,892 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $100,000 · Human Services+10 more: $348,990 · Human Services+10 moreSan Diego Community College Auxiliary Organization: $267,000 · OtherSan Diego Community College …HARDERCOMPANY COMMUNITY RESEARCH INC: $151,499 · OtherHARDERCOMPANY COMMUNITY RESE…EAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $140,400 · OtherEAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOP…COMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC: $81,300 · OtherInterfaith Community Services Inc: $66,921 · OtherCAMPESINOS UNIDOS INC: $58,750 · OtherEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $190,044 · OtherEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIE…API INITIATIVE INC: $95,792 · OtherAPI INITIATIVE INCEnvironmental Health Coalition: $74,401 · Other+23 more: $495,266 · Other+23 moreCONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER: $234,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION: $162,000 · EducationACCE Institute: $49,651 · EducationThink Dignity: $33,651 · EducationTraveling Stories: $18,097 · EducationTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $449,459 · HealthVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $5,846 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC: $194,573 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $164,400 · InternationalISLAH: $24,000 · InternationalSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $140,400 · Community ImprovementCLEANTECH SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION: $140,400 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT: $49,654 · Community ImprovementRISE Urban Leadership Institute of San Diego: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $140,400 · EmploymentPAVING GREAT FUTURES: $66,676 · EmploymentCREATING CODING CAREERS: $24,948 · Employment
Human Services$2,950,100Other$1,621,373Education$497,399Health$485,305International$382,973Community Improvement$355,454Employment$232,024

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $1,186,220 over 7y, 32% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $449,459 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $380,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSan Diego Community College Auxiliary Organization: $267,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $235,642 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER: $234,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $194,573 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $190,044 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMetropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty of San Diego County Inc: $188,660 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $164,400 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION: $162,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINFO LINE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $140,920 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $140,400 over 2y, 16% of budgetSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $140,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEAST COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $140,400 over 1y, 26% of budgetCLEANTECH SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION: $140,400 over 1y, 11% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $127,542 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $127,234 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNION OF PAN ASIAN COMMUNITIES: $114,892 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAPI INITIATIVE INC: $95,792 over 2y, 53% of budgetCOMITE CIVICO DEL VALLE INC: $81,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $74,401 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $68,151 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $68,132 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $66,921 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPAVING GREAT FUTURES: $66,676 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCAMPESINOS UNIDOS INC: $58,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHICANO FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO: $58,154 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO ORGANIZING PROJECT: $49,654 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetACCE Institute: $49,651 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThink Dignity: $33,651 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKaren Organization of San Diego: $33,651 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAYSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $27,651 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCREATING CODING CAREERS: $24,948 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetISLAH: $24,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNile Sisters Development Initiative: $23,651 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHOME START INC: $19,814 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTraveling Stories: $18,097 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $17,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $15,651 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRISE Urban Leadership Institute of San Diego: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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…Price Philanthropies …Catalyst of San Diego…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Alliance Healthcare F…Jewish Community Foun…The Parker FoundationThe California Endowm…Sempra FoundationThe California Wellne…Leichtag FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…
The San Diego FoundationCA65.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · The California Endowment · Sempra Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe 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 United Way of San Diego County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of San Diego County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    19report 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $93k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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