California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,763,500 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($3,750,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $455k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $284k
What San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation does
Mission
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Talent & WorkforceThe Foundation created this program as a collaborative effort to better prepare San Diegans for quality jobs via locally serving education institutions and expand access to diverse, qualified talent for San Diego companies. Advancing San Diego is helping the region meet its inclusive growth goals by strengthening relationships between local industry and education systems. Better alignment between these systems will mean that the region can collectively prepare San Diegans for high-demand jobs, and local employers many of which are small companies can establish or expand recruitment relationships with locally serving.
$370,310 spent56% of program spendingInclusive Economic DevelopmentThe Foundation supports programs and initiatives which impact the region's ability to sustain job growth for residents in high-demand jobs. Projects including, overseeing research projects that identify areas for potential job growth and identify risk factors among certain sectors within the region's economy; outreach to businesses in the high technology sectors, with an emphasis on small and medium sized businesses and provide services to support their growth and development in the region; and stewarding the regional Inclusive Growth Strategy to make San Diego more affordable and competitive for all San Diego.
$174,791 spent27% of program spendingSan Diego Investment MapCreation of Investment Map to support inclusive economic growth across the region. It is a key component of EDCs 2030 Inclusive Growth framework, particularly aimed at advancing the Thriving Households goal by informing strategic decisions in housing, childcare, and corporate site selection. The map integrates a variety of datasets into user-friendly dashboards, allowing stakeholders to explore San Diego County through different lenses. These dashboards include data and analyses on income distribution, worker concentrations, housing, childcare, and site selection.
$60,000 spent9% of program spendingMetroConnect is a flagship international sales accelerator that equips San Diego-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with resources to expand into global markets. The program provides matching grants, executive workshops on export compliance and finance, specialized mentorship, and access to a global service provider network.
$50,000 spent8% of program spendingSAN DIEGO BUSINESS HUBSan Diego Business Hub is a program tailored for small, service-based businesses to receive a full suite of digital tools, free-of-charge. Reserved for minority, women, veteran and other economically under-resourced business owners, these digital tools are provided to allow small businesses to pivot online, run more efficiently, and improve overall resiliency during an economic downturn.
$1,375 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $656,476.
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 2019 to 2020, from $152k to $1.7M (+1027%).
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 11% · 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Tana Lorah
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $161k → $790k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $633k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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: 2017 41% · 2018 35% · 2019 92% · 2020 89% · 2021 86% · 2022 71% · 2023 63% — 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
17% of SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k 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.
Against its field
SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- San Diego Regional Economic Development · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,763,500 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($3,750,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,763,500 in grants to SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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.
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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 20 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