California · Nonprofit
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,193 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($167,192). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $280k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What United Service Organization USO Council of San Diego does
Mission
The primary mission of the uso san diego is to strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Airport center - provides a lounge area at the san diego airport for military personnel entering or departing the san diego area. This facility provides amenities such as furnishings for relaxation, beverages, snacks, telelvision, games, internet and entertainment. Military personnel and recruits are provided assistance with general, transportation and travel questions and are provided support for their transfer in or out of the area for all branches of the service. This facility serves 116,000 or more active military personnel annually and is staffed by over 150 volunteers who log over 25,000 volunteer hours.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $4.7M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $293k → $24k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO’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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
94% 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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 29% · 2019 24% · 2020 29% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 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.
How long its funders stay
26% of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO'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 $478k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $528k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO
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
Public support
99%
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 UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO: 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 SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO?
- UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,193 to it, the largest being GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ($167,192). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,006,193 in grants to UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO?
- GARY SINISE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $167,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 22 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