California · Nonprofit
South County Economic Development Council
South County Economic Development Council (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,085 to it, the largest being CIVIC SAN DIEGO ECONOMIC GROWTH AND NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENT FUND ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- East County Economic Development Councillocalportfolio match
- The Conrad Prebys Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Countieslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2020 38% · 2021 58% · 2022 45% · 2023 38% · 2024 53% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $1k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money South County Economic Development Council raised.
From the IRS filings of South County Economic Development Council’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
South County Economic Development Council leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 South County Economic Development Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 3% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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 South County Economic Development Council's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60 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.
- East County Economic Development Councillocalportfolio matchCA · funds 223 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Conrad Prebys Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 380 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Countieslocalportfolio matchCA · funds 112 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of San Diego Countylocalportfolio matchCA · funds 58 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
- San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bid Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association for Microenterprise Opportunityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Legler Benbough Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiu Local 221portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 South County Economic Development Council
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for South County Economic Development Council: 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 South County Economic Development Council?
- South County Economic Development Council (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,085 to it, the largest being CIVIC SAN DIEGO ECONOMIC GROWTH AND NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENT FUND ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South County Economic Development Council have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,085 in grants to South County Economic Development Council, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South County Economic Development Council?
- CIVIC SAN DIEGO ECONOMIC GROWTH AND NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South County Economic Development Council 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 2020–2025), 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