California · Nonprofit
INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO
INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,792,075 to it, the largest being WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION ($860,002). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Interfaith Shelter Network of San Diego does
Mission
The Interfaith Shelter Network of San Diego (the Organization) is a non-profit, public benefit corporation, incorporated on August 1, 2010 (formerly Ecumenical Council of San Diego County, incorporated April 24, 1970), under the laws of the state of California, to work collaboratively, through its Rotational Shelter Program, with local human service agencies, local governments and local congregations to provide winter shelters and other services and resources to homeless individuals and families at congregational shelter sites throughout the San Diego region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
El nido ("the nest") is a transitional living program for homeless victims of domestic violence and their children. Located in central san diego, in a confidential site for safety reasons, the program offers stability in housing while allowing the residents to offer emotional support to each other and less isolation during this stressful time in their lives. It also is respectful of residents' autonomy and provides as close to a real-life scenario as possible. Residents live in an 11-unit apartment complex for up to a year or more and, with the assistance of social workers, obtain the counseling, child care, employment, educational, and transportation services they need to become self-sufficient. Each of the units was fully furnished by a local congregation.
$332,703 spent$31,819 earned by the program51% of program spendingTHE ROTATIONAL SHELTER PROGRAM PROVIDES EMERGENCY SHELTER TO SINGLES, COUPLES, AND FAMILIES COUNTYWIDE. THE SAFE AND NURTURING COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT FOSTERS SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND IMPROVES SELF-ESTEEM THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF PAID STAFF, SUB-CONTRACTORS AND VOLUNTEERS. San Diego County congregations and volunteers have collectively sheltered more than 11,000 people for 310,000 nights over the past 38 years.
$324,081 spent49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $656,784.
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 $1.9M (+37%).
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: 2017 36% · 2018 34% · 2019 29% · 2020 42% · 2021 60% · 2022 50% · 2023 41% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Barbara Stewart
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $95k → $200k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO’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
INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 66% · 2019 34% · 2020 46% · 2021 67% · 2022 44% · 2023 67% — 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
30% of INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO'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
96% of INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $381k 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.
Organizations like INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO: 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 INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO?
- INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,792,075 to it, the largest being WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION ($860,002). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,792,075 in grants to INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO?
- WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $860,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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