California · Nonprofit
EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $753,824 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($427,601). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $754k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Epilepsy Society of San Diego County does
Mission
Epilepsy Society of San Diego County's mission is to develop and foster a program for the personal, social, economic, and philosophical betterment of all persons with epilepsy, and to provide recognition and respect as members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awareness, education, and training: this program area includes epilepsy awareness, education and in service seizure first aid training for the general public, school personnel, classroom presentation, school assemblies, those in the health-care and disabilities fields, law enforcement, employees, service groups, and public seminars on epilepsy topics.
$254,646 spentof which $250 as grants$1,616 earned by the program40% of program spendingPatient services: this program area includes information and referral services, summer camp, scholarships, individual and family counseling, advocacy and employment services, therapy group, adult and parent support groups, parent mentoring network, parent newsletter, educational speakers and national research.
$381,970 spent60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $636,616.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.0M to $1.6M (−20%).
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 6% · 2019 0% · 2020 9% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $74k → $78k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY’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
EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 59% · 2019 73% · 2020 47% · 2021 64% · 2022 60% · 2023 75% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
88% of EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY'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 $88k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $666k 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
EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: 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 EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY?
- EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $753,824 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($427,601). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $753,824 in grants to EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $427,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EPILEPSY SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 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 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing