California · Nonprofit
I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc
I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $557,330 to it, the largest being KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC ($165,259). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $557k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc does
Mission
I Love A Clean San Diego works to improve the quality of life for all San Diegans by providing environmental preservation opportunities and education through a variety of channels. continues on Schedule O.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Engagement In 2025, ILACSD restored and enhanced outdoor areas across San Diego County through 906 community events, supported by 28,284 volunteers. The majority of these cleanups took place in inland areas, including creek beds, canyons, parks, and urban neighborhoods. Countywide efforts such as Creek to Bay and Coastal Cleanup Day mobilized thousands of volunteers to address environmental damage, dedicating a few hours to improving outdoor spaces while engaging in a meaningful and enjoyable experience. ILACSD also serves as the San Diego County coordinator for the statewide Adopt-A-Beach program and offers an independent cleanup program, empowering residents to beautify their own neighborhoods year-round.
$644,815 spent$509,890 earned by the program27% of program spendingI Love A Clean San Diegos environmental education programs combine classroom presentations with hands-on learning opportunities for children and teens, while also offering a robust selection of adult education activities tailored to local businesses, individuals, and families. These programs foster environmental awareness and inspire long-term stewardship, often transforming otherwise unaware youth into lifelong environmental advocates. In 2025, ILACSD delivered 940 environmental education presentations, reaching approximately 44,668 youth and adults across San Diego County. In addition, ILACSD engaged community members through outreach booths at local events. ILACSD is a trusted partner to more than a dozen local jurisdictions, implementing comprehensive environmental programs with a strong focus on youth education.
$944,252 spent$746,672 earned by the program40% of program spendingWaste Recovery ILACSD operates a call center and manages an online database that provide San Diego County residents with convenient, reliable information on waste disposal, recycling, and reuse. Through these resources, individuals receive referrals on how and where to recycle, repair, donate, or safely dispose of hazardous items, helping to divert significant amounts of waste from local landfills and reduce illegal dumping. In 2025, ILACSD responded to 221,155 requests for recycling information through its WasteFreeSD.org platform and 1800237BLUE hotline. In addition to these services, ILACSD offers recycling outreach and infrastructure support at community events, with educational content on topics such as used motor oil recycling. ILACSD also conducts site visits to certified collection centers to ensure compliance with environmental standards. To further reduce waste, ILACSD hosts swap events where community members exchange gently used items, encouraging reuse, and reducing unnecessary purchases. ILACSD also partners with school districts countywide to evaluate and improve camp
$796,503 spent$629,838 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,385,570.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $2.5M (+77%).
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 15% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 8% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Steve Morris
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $78k → $100k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $423k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of I Love A Clean San Diego County 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
I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
75% 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 I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 50% · 2019 70% · 2020 58% · 2021 84% · 2022 32% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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 I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like I Love A Clean San Diego County 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.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc?
- I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $557,330 to it, the largest being KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC ($165,259). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $557,330 in grants to I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc?
- KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,259 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I Love A Clean San Diego County 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 18 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