California · Nonprofit
UNITED PORTUGUESE SES
UNITED PORTUGUESE SES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,740 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($29,200). 1 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 FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What United Portuguese Ses does
Mission
Preservation and encouragement of portuguese traditions, culture, and music
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The objective of the united portuguese s.e.s. Is to promote religious and cultural festivals and educate the general public about portuguese traditions, ethnic culture and music.one such service provided is the annual 3-day festa honoring the feast of the holy spirit, which has been celebrated in portugal for centuries. The united portuguese s.e.s. Services approximately 20,000 people in the san diego area.
$646,156 spent93% of program spendingThe portuguese american dancers perform at festivals and events throughout california to promote and encourage the celebration of portuguese dance, rites and holidays.
$28,222 spent4% of program spendingThe filarmonica performs at festivals, parades and events throughout california to promote and encourage the celebration of portuguese music, rites and holidays.
$23,841 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $698,219.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $4.1M to $4.7M (+14%).
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.
19% of UNITED PORTUGUESE SES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $8k.
1 of 2 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 UNITED PORTUGUESE SES’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
UNITED PORTUGUESE SES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
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 UNITED PORTUGUESE SES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of UNITED PORTUGUESE SES'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 $540 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.
Against its field
UNITED PORTUGUESE SES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED PORTUGUESE SES
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED PORTUGUESE SES: 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 UNITED PORTUGUESE SES?
- UNITED PORTUGUESE SES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,740 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($29,200). 1 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 UNITED PORTUGUESE SES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,740 in grants to UNITED PORTUGUESE SES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED PORTUGUESE SES?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $29,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED PORTUGUESE SES 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 2 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