California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM
SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,239,748 to it, the largest being STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ($2,509,671). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $958k
What San Diego Second Chance Program does
Mission
To disrupt the cycles of incarceration and poverty by helping people towards empowered self-sufficiency
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth services:strive future leaders focuses on supporting and addressing the educational and employment barriers faced by court-involved youth while helping them attain life-skills and in-demand occupational and employment skills needed to obtain livable wage jobs. The second chance youth garden provides young people (14-21) with a supportive, structured environment that helps to prepare them for success in the job market, high school, and higher education. Through paid transitional employment, youth receive job readiness training, learn positive communication skills, and engage in leadership training/development. Through hands-on, garden-based education, youth learn to seed, cultivate and harvest the fruits of their labor and share this bounty with the community through our neighborhood farm stands. In partnership with the san diego county juvenile court and community schools, the program combines in-class and experiential learning to increase youth awareness of urban agriculture and food justice and help move them towards successful high school graduation. The youthoffender rehabilitation program uses evidence based curricula and cognitive behavioral training to aid…
$382,758 spent11% of program spendingCollaborative court programs: collaborative court programs are designed to assist incarcerated individuals with a successful transition to their community."
$2,227,264 spent62% of program spendingHousing:the organization operates five sober living properties. Goals are to foster personal responsibility, restore self-esteem and self-confidence, and eliminate isolation by creating a community atmosphere with the ultimate goal of staying clean and sober while transitioning to independent living.
$975,640 spent$307,737 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,585,662.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.9M to $7.8M (−13%).
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 58% · 2018 68% · 2019 62% · 2020 69% · 2021 78% · 2022 48% · 2023 54% · 2024 65% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Stephen Chin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $511k → $932k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 40% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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 SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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
SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 2 related entities
- Hope Housing Works LLC · disregarded
- Imperial Headquarters LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM?
- SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,239,748 to it, the largest being STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ($2,509,671). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $5,239,748 in grants to SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM?
- STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,509,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM 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 38 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