California · Nonprofit
Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership
Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,440,451 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,034,736). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $953k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $871k
What Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership does
Mission
DEEP mobilizes community partners around a research-guided theory of change designed to ensure that children attending schools in a cluster of southeastern San Diego neighborhoods enter kindergarten prepared for success and complete third grade reading proficiently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preparing for Kinder - Strengthens capacity of early caregivers to provide children with enriching learning experiences. DEEP brings science, reading, and behavior-focused intergenerational workshops to schools. It supports family participation in the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Program and music in PK-1 classrooms.
$193,863 spent31% of program spendingReading by Third Grade - Involves university partners and social service agencies ensuring children have in-school access to research-based early reading instruction and social supports that address barriers to learning like social-emotional issues and chronic absenteeism. DEEP supports principal and teacher professional development and engages interns in social work and early childhood mental health.
$57,071 spent9% of program spendingLearning Beyond the Classroom - Offers extended learning opportunities to expand upon in-school instruction. DEEP provides after-school literacy support and enrichment programs and a summer learning program for emerging readers. It runs a summer reading campaign in collaboration with the public library to encourage community-wide reading.
$360,969 spent58% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 12,801, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Emergency Relief - to support San Diegans in need due to the historical floods in January 2024. It provides direct financial assistant to individuals and families that were impacted by the San Diego floods by working with school sites to support their existing services and provide necessary resources for families displaced by the floods.
$12,801 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $624,704.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $534k to $789k (+48%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Allison Ohle
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $25k → $314k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership’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
Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 60% · 2019 89% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 60% · 2023 49% — 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
45% of Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
79% of Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $522k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership
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
75% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership: 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 Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership?
- Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,440,451 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,034,736). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,440,451 in grants to Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,034,736 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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