California · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,653 to it, the largest being BID FOUNDATION ($36,451). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Downtown San Diego Partnership Inc does
Mission
The downtown san diego partnership serves as the principal voice and driving force behind the economic prosperity and cultural vitality of downtown san diego through membership, advocacy, enhanced services, and community investment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Formed in 2010, the downtown partnership clean & safe program works hard to keep downtown looking its best through enhanced maintenance, safety, unhoused care, and beautification services on behalf of those who live, work, and play within the 275 blocks that make up the pbid. Residents, businesses, and property owners can have confidence in downtown because of the best practices, continuous improvement, and recognized excellence that the clean & safe team brings to the responsibility of serving downtown's urban neighborhoods. Funded by downtown property owners, the clean & safe services provided within the neighborhoods of city center, columbia, cortez hill, east village, gaslamp quarter, and marina are over and above those otherwise available through any existing government entity.
The city center bid represents the 53 blocks of businesses that make up downtown san diego's city center neighborhood. The city center bid provides the resources necessary to improve the quality of life, create a vibrant destination for shopping, dining, nightlife and tourism, and promote everything the bid has to offer potential visitors and residents. To support its activities the city center bid receives funding from both business assessments and parking district funds. Parking district funds are used for wayfinding and mobility improvements within the district.
Through its membership and events department, the dsdp provides connections, resources, and support at varying levels depending on members' needs. Members of the dsdp include community leaders, regional decision-makers, business leaders, industry professionals, downtown advocates, and engaged residents who are all committed to the economic prosperity and cultural vitality of san diego's urban center. The dsdp provides a full calendar of public and exclusive events for its nearly 300 members focused on professional development, networking, and connections.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $3.0M (+108%).
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.
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.
Board chair
Phil Rath
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $17k.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC’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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Columbia Community Foundation Inc · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Business Improvement District Inc · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Clean and Safe · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Partnership Foundation · exempt
- Downtown San Diego Partnership Political Action Committee · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC: 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 DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC?
- DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,653 to it, the largest being BID FOUNDATION ($36,451). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $103,653 in grants to DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC?
- BID FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $36,451 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO PARTNERSHIP INC 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 6 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