California · Nonprofit
San Diego Alpha Foundation
San Diego Alpha Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($7,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
San Diego Alpha Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fundshared funders
- Seiu Local 221portfolio match
- Jason Mraz Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $3k.
From the IRS filings of San Diego Alpha Foundation’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
San Diego Alpha Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of San Diego Alpha Foundation'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fundshared fundersCA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Seiu Local 221portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jason Mraz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thursday Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Padres Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joseph & Katherine Castucci Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fontana Foundation of Hopeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Latino Legislative Caucus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Q Johnson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Diego Tijuana World Design Capital 2024portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East County Economic Development Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like San Diego Alpha Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for San Diego Alpha Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds San Diego Alpha Foundation?
- San Diego Alpha Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,250 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($7,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Diego Alpha Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,250 in grants to San Diego Alpha Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Diego Alpha Foundation?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Diego Alpha Foundation 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing