California · Nonprofit
BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO
BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Business for Good San Diego does
Mission
Advocacy,education and policy awareness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, Business for Good San Diego hosted an expert-led business basics 101 professional development series free-of-charge to nearly 100 small and underserved business owners in
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $48k to $31k (−35%).
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.
100% of BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Emily Renda
Executive director
Board chair
Mikey Knab
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
2%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO: 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 BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO?
- BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO.
- Who is the largest funder of BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUSINESS FOR GOOD SAN DIEGO 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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