California · Nonprofit
Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego
Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,034 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($59,974). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $221k
What Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego does
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to the advancement of water safety through the many programs it supports including waterproofing San Diego, learn to swim programs for intercity youth and scholarships for disadvantaged family participation in the foundation's summer program services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wateproofing san diego program - the lessons are funded by the Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego with the goal to teach every child in san diego how to swim.the program includes dozens of free one-hour aquatic education lectures and free swim lessons to numerous schools and organizations. The goal is to save lives, increase confidence and allow all children the opportunity to experience joy in a pool, bay or the ocean. Once complete, the foundation, utilizing trained lifeguards, take groups of new pool swimmers to the beach for a day. Many of the participants have never been to the beach before. The activities mirror those provided to youth in the junior lifeguard program and are designed to introduce youth to the ocean environment including recognition of rip currents and other beach safety education. The goal of this 4-hour/one day program is to increase their confidence in and around the water environment and to motivate them to be more proficient swimmers so they may enroll in the san diego junior lifeguard program.
$253,649 spent86% of program spendingJunior lifeguards program - the san diego junior lifeguard program is supported and partially funded by pdfsd. The program is a four week program with each day lasting 3.5 hours. The goal of the program is for students to build self-confidence and skills for life. Upon completion of the program, students will have the skills and knowledge to safely enjoy the beach and consider becoming a paid lifeguard.
$39,781 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $293,430.
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 2022 to 2023, from $435k to $264k (−39%).
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: 2019 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Corey McClelland
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $75k → $10k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Prevent Drowning Foundation 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
Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
86% 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 Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 77% · 2019 86% · 2020 71% · 2021 70% · 2022 65% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
86% of Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego'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 $39k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Prevent Drowning Foundation 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Prevent Drowning Foundation 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 Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego?
- Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,034 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($59,974). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $267,034 in grants to Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prevent Drowning Foundation of San Diego?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $59,974 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prevent Drowning Foundation 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.
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 11 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