California · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,866 to it, the largest being THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION ($211,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $-50227
What Downtown San Diego Partnership Foundation does
Mission
To advance the economic prosperity and cultural vitality of downtown san diego.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Homeless expense: the unhoused care team is committed to reducing downtown homelessness through connections to helpful resources, including the administration of their successful family reunification program. This program reconnects unsheltered individuals with their loved ones as a diversion from homelessness. During fy24-25, the unhoused care team reconnected more than 1,071 clients to their support systems through the family reunification program; referred and/or placed 456 clients in shelter, housing, emergency hotels, or safelocations after domestic violence; and enrolled 566 individuals in the safe sleeping site.
$3,688,364 spent$3,756,928 earned by the program96% of program spendingParking and mobility enhancements: the downtown partnership also provides staffing and expertise in the management of mobility projects through parking meter revenue administered by the city of san diego and its neighborhood parking program for two downtown neighborhoods - cortez and marina. Projects include creative crosswalks, pedestrian plazas,wayfinding signage, bike racks, and other efforts to improve the public realm.
$138,635 spent$138,635 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,826,999.
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 2023 to 2024, from $319k to $1.1M (+241%).
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: 2018 18% · 2019 52% · 2020 43% · 2021 47% · 2022 66% · 2023 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
Elizabeth Brennan
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $16.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $38k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP 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
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
78% of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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
- Downtown San Diego Partnership Inc · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Public Spaces Foundation · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Clean and Safe Foundation · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Business Improvement District Inc · exempt
- Columbia Community Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,866 to it, the largest being THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION ($211,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $293,866 in grants to DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- THE CUSHMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $211,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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