California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO OASIS
SAN DIEGO OASIS (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,126,776 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,751,201). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $945k
What San Diego Oasis does
Mission
San Diego Oasis is a nonprofit organization serving people 50+ throughout the san diego region. Our mission is to promote successful aging through a three-fold approach: lifelong learning, healthy living and intergenerational community service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education for lifelong learning - San Diego Oasis provides educational programs for a broad and diverse audience of lifelong learners. Topics include creative writing, foreign languages, history, philosophy, art, music, book discussions, technology, current events, consumer affairs, and support groups. Programs are offered in locations throughout the san diego county, including oasis centers, libraries, community centers and senior centers.
$875,067 spentof which $143,110 as grants$690,865 earned by the program45% of program spendingTechnology - San Diego Oasis offers a broad spectrum of technology classes for older learners. Courses include understanding cloud and wifi, learning to use a smartphone, online safety, social networks, managing photos, gadgets & gismos, strong passwords. These tech workshops help older adults improve their technology skills to make it possible to enter or reenter the workforce, stay connected to families, and improve their comfort as online consumers. Besides fulllength classes, oasis offers programming in the cox tech tank: one-on-one tech consultations as well as 30 minute workshops on practical tips, such as "what is a qr code?"
$425,692 spent22% of program spendingVolunteer service - San Diego Oasis offers a wide variety of volunteer experiences, including intergenerational mentoring programs that address literacy. Through the one-on-one oasis intergenerational tutoring program, trained volunteers serve as reading tutors for primary grade students in 11 school districts, currently serving more than 100 elementary schools. Volunteers also serve in administrative roles as course instructors, oasis center volunteers, and ambassadors.
$319,362 spent16% of program spendingHealth: throughout the san diego county, in its full time centers and partner locations, San Diego Oasis offers a broad variety of exercise and fitness classes, as well as health education programs in areas of nutrition, disease management, sensory changes, mental health, memory, and general health promotion.
$316,143 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,936,264.
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 $6.7M to $1.4M (−79%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 3% · 2023 12% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of SAN DIEGO OASIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Simona Valanciute
President / CEO
Board chair
Mark Allen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $204k → $630k.
9 of 44 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.
From the IRS filings of SAN DIEGO OASIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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 OASIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 SAN DIEGO OASIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 47% · 2019 42% · 2020 49% · 2021 60% · 2022 42% · 2023 61% — 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
33% of SAN DIEGO OASIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
78% of SAN DIEGO OASIS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
SAN DIEGO OASIS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SAN DIEGO OASIS
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 17170 Bernardo Center LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO OASIS: 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 SAN DIEGO OASIS?
- SAN DIEGO OASIS (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,126,776 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,751,201). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO OASIS have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $5,126,776 in grants to SAN DIEGO OASIS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO OASIS?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,751,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO OASIS 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 44 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