California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024
SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,378,250 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($1,010,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $229k
What San Diego Tijuana World Design Capital 2024 does
Mission
Wdc is a year long celebration of design in our community and also an opportunity to use the power of design to transform our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The legacy program -the legacy program is the future-focused extension of our vibrant community program which prioritizes investment and support for initiatives with the potential to bring about long lasting transformative regional change. Theseimpact projectsaim to leave behind a transformed border landscape that is more inclusive, environmentally responsible, and economically prosperous for current and future generations. The legacy program is designed to produce tangible, measurable outcomes that directly tackle regional challenges, or highlight and celebrate existing strengths and achievements in our region.
$314,257 spent$2,732 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $314,257.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $146k to $683k (+367%).
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: 2023 24% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Mai Nguyen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024’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 TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024: 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 TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024?
- SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,378,250 to it, the largest being THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION ($1,010,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,378,250 in grants to SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024?
- THE CONRAD PREBYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO TIJUANA WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2024 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 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