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San Diego Shores Water Polo Club

San Diego Shores Water Polo Club (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,739 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$123k
Net assets
$1.3M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What San Diego Shores Water Polo Club does

Mission

The shores water polo club holds water polo camps for children from ages 8 to 18 throughout the year. The camps teach basic and advanced water polo skills, as well as other life skills related to competition, team play, good sportsmanship, and a healthy life style.the shores water polo club hosts home tournaments (hosted tournaments) in which the campers can demonstrate and refine their learned skills in a competitive situation against other water polo teams. The shores club also participates in tournaments hosted by other teams (nonhosted tournaments) throughout the united states and occasionally in other countries around the world.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Hosted and nonhosted tournaments

    $812,823 spent$865,984 earned by the program
    63% of program spending
  2. Water polo camps

    $468,195 spent$672,109 earned by the program
    37% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,281,018.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($990k) Expenses 100 ($934k) Net assets 100 ($258k)2018 Revenue 98 ($973k) Expenses 112 ($1.0M) Net assets 71 ($182k)2019 Revenue 125 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.2M) Net assets 89 ($229k)2020 Revenue 81 ($805k) Expenses 69 ($642k) Net assets 152 ($392k)2021 Revenue 98 ($967k) Expenses 80 ($745k) Net assets 264 ($680k)2022 Revenue 155 ($1.5M) Expenses 137 ($1.3M) Net assets 277 ($716k)2023 Revenue 174 ($1.7M) Expenses 174 ($1.6M) Net assets 397 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 183 ($1.8M) Expenses 162 ($1.5M) Net assets 513 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (162)Net assets (513)Peer revenue range

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 $716k to $1.0M (+43%).

$258k
$182k
$229k
$417k
$680k
$716k
$1.0M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of San Diego Shores Water Polo Club’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
−$76k
’18
$47k
’19
$163k
’20
$222k
’21
$249k
’22
$96k
’23
$297k
’24
11
months of
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.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $213.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 Shores Water Polo Club’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 Shores Water Polo Club leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 Shores Water Polo Club.

81%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

98% of San Diego Shores Water Polo Club'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

WY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

San Diego Shores Water Polo Club runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds San Diego Shores Water Polo Club?
San Diego Shores Water Polo Club (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,739 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does San Diego Shores Water Polo Club have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $122,739 in grants to San Diego Shores Water Polo Club, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of San Diego Shores Water Polo Club?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like San Diego Shores Water Polo Club 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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