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DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION

DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,352 to it, the largest being WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$266k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$438k
Net assets
$1.2M
14/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Don Diego Scholarship Foundation does

Mission

The Don Diego Scholarship Foundation provides annual scholarships to outstanding san diego county high school seniors who have participated in the san diego county fair or other del mar fairgrounds events it also gives grants for agricultural education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Don Diego Scholarship Foundation provides annual scholarships to outstanding san diego county high school seniors who have participated in the san diego county fair or other del mar fairgrounds events. The foundation also gives grants for agricultural education.

    $268,668 spentof which $142,482 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $268,668.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($285k) Expenses 100 ($183k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 71 ($203k) Expenses 121 ($221k) Net assets 98 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 82 ($233k) Expenses 127 ($232k) Net assets 98 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 86 ($247k) Expenses 93 ($171k) Net assets 114 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 48 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($183k) Net assets 114 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 82 ($233k) Expenses 116 ($212k) Net assets 97 ($999k)2023 Revenue 70 ($201k) Expenses 140 ($256k) Net assets 101 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 106 ($302k) Expenses 125 ($228k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 93 ($266k) Expenses 180 ($329k) Net assets 116 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (93)Expenses (180)Net assets (116)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 $1.3M to $1.0M (−18%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

75% of DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’17
−$18k
’18
$1k
’19
$76k
’20
−$47k
’21
$21k
’22
−$55k
’23
$74k
’24
−$64k
’25
1.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Kirby Morrison

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed242828291819202123
Joined·+7+2+6+1+2+3+1+2
No longer listed·325121200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $26k → $89k.

5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP 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.

How concentrated its funding is

DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

35% 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 DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION.

26%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 40% · 2019 29% · 2020 47% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% — 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 DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,352 to it, the largest being WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $438,352 in grants to DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DON DIEGO SCHOLARSHIP 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.

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 20 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