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ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being LONG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$19k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$269k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Athena San Diego Foundation does

Mission

Nonprofit public benefit corporation

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Athena San Diego Foundation provides scholarships to graduating high school seniors pursuing a career in science, technology, engineering or math who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership in school organizations.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($12k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($377k)2022 Revenue 35 ($4k) Expenses 133 ($43k) Net assets 82 ($309k)2023 Revenue 271 ($33k) Expenses 152 ($49k) Net assets 78 ($293k)2024 Revenue 153 ($19k) Expenses 132 ($43k) Net assets 71 ($269k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (153)Expenses (132)Net assets (71)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $377k to $309k (−18%).

$377k
$309k
$293k
$269k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’21
−$38k
’22
−$16k
’23
−$24k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−129% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION?
ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being LONG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION?
LONG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATHENA SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing