California · Nonprofit
YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,381,311 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,056,900). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $16M
What YWCA of San Diego County does
Mission
See schedule o.ywca san diego county empowers individuals and families to break the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness, and achieve self-sufficiency. Through gender-inclusive crisis interventions, safe housing solutions, and integrated services, ywca helps adult and child survivors escape abuse, heal from trauma, gain economic and housing stability, and build a strong foundation for lasting independence. Founded in 1908, ywca has served women, families, and underserved populations through education, housing, employment development, and diverse services to increase equal opportunity and foster safety, strength, and self-reliance. Building upon a historic legacy, ywca remains committed to empowering women, eliminating racism, and advocating for peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ywca's domestic violence programs encompass a 24-hour crisis and referral hotline, the vi mckinny emergency shelter, becky's house transitional housing, and longer-term housing solutions to address the unique needs of domestic violence survivors. Our safe housing programs are complemented by a wide array of integrated services including case management, mental health counseling, legal assistance, employment support, and financial aid to help adult and child survivors heal from trauma, rebuild their lives, and gain enduring economic and housing stability to thrive.
$2,034,360 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,034,360.
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.
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 $13M to $16M (+24%).
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: 2017 69% · 2018 54% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 36% · 2022 56% · 2023 49% · 2024 51% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Heather Finlay
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $294k → $447k.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 25% · 2020 41% · 2021 73% · 2022 20% · 2023 33% — 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
42% of YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
65% of YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY'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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: 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 YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY?
- YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,381,311 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,056,900). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $6,381,311 in grants to YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,056,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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