California · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,412,769 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ($13,508,616). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego does
Mission
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 those we serve to experience dignity and respect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Open Arms:Refugee ServicesThe Refugee Resettlement Program provides wrap-around case management services, including reception and placement, cultural orientation, cash assistance, health education, employment services, and social services. The services are for newly arrived refugees, asylees, Cuban, Haitian, and Ukrainian parolees, foreign-born victims of human trafficking, and special immigrant visa holders from Afghanistan and Iraq. Programs include Reception & Placement (until February 2025), San Diego Newcomers Project, Home Studies and Post Release Services (formerly Safe Passages), Afghan Support and Investment Program, Afghan Newcomer Support Program (startedApril 2025), Housing Assistance for Ukrainians, PC-IR, and Catholic Charities Migrant Respite Shelters. From July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, the refugee resettlement program provided shelter and wrap-around services to 21,811 families and 39,509 clients in San Diego and Imperial County, 137 households with a total of 411 clients for Reception and Placement services, and 797 clients for the San Diego Newcomers Project. The Afghan Support and Investment Program provides clients across California with rental assistance…
$83,040,554 spentof which $67,201,214 as grants89% of program spendingHomeless Services:Womens Homeless Services provides a continuum of services for women experiencing homelessness in San Diego County. These programs are grouped together under the name of Rachels Programs, and consist of Rachels Womens Center, a drop-in day center for women who are unhoused; Rachels Night Shelter, a 35-bed night shelter; and Rachels Promise, a 40-bed 24/7 interim shelter for women. Rachels Promise relocated in May 2025 and increased its capacity from 40 to 50 beds. Rachels Womens Center provides behavioral health recovery support for women living with substance use disorders and mental health conditions; many of whom are also dealing with complex medical conditions. In addition to onsite services, Rachels Womens Center also includes a mobile outreach component and employment assistance through a sub-contract with NAMI San Diego. All the Rachels Programs provide services in a safety focused, trauma-informed manner, and offer case management and care coordination to support women in achieving stability and ultimately obtaining housing.The Rachels Programs served a combined total of 860 unique women during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. Most of these 860 women…
$6,309,438 spent7% of program spendingFamily, Youth, Children and Community Services:Our CalFresh Healthy Living Program (formerly SNAP-Ed) promotes healthy, active lifestyles for individuals and families in San Diego and Imperial Counties. The program helps participants make healthy food choices within a limited budget and encourages physically active lifestyles consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.We provide evidence-based nutrition and physical activity education to low-income individuals and collaborate with sister agencies, local organizations, and community leaders to expand services and strengthen community health initiatives. In FY20242025, we provided direct nutrition education to 1,536 individuals, and reached an additional 51,325 individuals through indirect education.CalFresh Food (SNAP) is an entitlement program that provides monthly benefits to help low-income households purchase the food they need to maintain adequate nutrition. Benefits may be used for any food or food product intended for human consumption. Our CalFresh Food team supports the community by assisting with applications, conducting outreach, and advocating for individuals…
$3,303,090 spent4% of program spendingHousing:Imperial Countys Continuum of Care - Catholic Charities operates the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) for the Imperial Valley Homeless Task Force, and under contract of the County of Imperial. HMIS tracks homeless persons, as data is collected from the agencies and providers that serve homeless persons, to determine gaps in services, and improve service delivery benefiting the Imperial Valley community.Catholic Charities offers Rapid Re-Housing Programs in both San Diego and Imperial Counties, providing rental assistance and security deposits, as well as landlord advocacy, assistance with finding affordable housing, and case management assistance to individuals who are homeless, with the goal of moving them into permanent housing.Catholic Charities 9th & F Street Apartments, L.P. (the Partnership) was formed as a limited partnership under the laws of the State of California on October 17, 2003, and amended on December 30, 2003, for the purpose of constructing and operating a rental housing project (the Project). The Project consists of 24 units. The Project is located in San Diego, California.
$600,714 spent$666,406 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,253,796.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $37M to $64M (+74%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 65% · 2020 68% · 2021 70% · 2022 84% · 2023 93% · 2024 93% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Appaswamy Vino Pajanor
CEO
Board chair
Rev Bruce Osborn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.9M.
20 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 89% · 2019 90% · 2020 71% · 2021 90% · 2022 56% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
30% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93.2M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$76.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.4M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$5.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
- Department of Justice$999k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF 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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Leahs Residence LLC · disregarded
- Guadalupe Plaza Housing LLC · disregarded
- St Johns Plaza Housing LLC · disregarded
- Cathedral Plaza Housing LLC · disregarded
- Cerro Pueblo Housing LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,412,769 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA ($13,508,616). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $21,412,769 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $13,508,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 75 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