California · Nonprofit
SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION
SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,137 to it, the largest being PADRES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Lucky Duck Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rclocalportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 YOUTH 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 YOUTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 YOUTH FOUNDATION.
“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 YOUTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 157 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lucky Duck Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rclocalportfolio matchCA · funds 92 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lily Lai Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- San Diego Kiwanis Club Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rolf Benirschke Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mdm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stafford Memorial Tr Found Tuaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Germaine Children's Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David C Copley Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · funds 210 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- San Diego Youth Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO YOUTH 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION?
- SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,137 to it, the largest being PADRES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,137 in grants to SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO YOUTH FOUNDATION?
- PADRES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO YOUTH 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.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing