Torrey Coast Foundation
San Diego, CA · EIN 85-4224393. Reported 75 grants totalling $27.9M to 48 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Torrey Coast Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $200,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $101,200 and $500,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $2,550,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Entertainment Industry Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $4,050,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $2,626,800 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Entertainment Industry Foundation ( Stand Up for Cancer) | Los Angeles, CA | $2,550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| UC San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $2,420,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,292,852 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (mfcr) | New York, NY | $1,250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| SU2C Convergence - Project 2 | Los Angeles, CA | $1,150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ucsd Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $1,135,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $977,599 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Degregorio Family Foundation | Pleasantville, NY | $812,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $725,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| SU2C Amendment #3 - Project 3 | Los Angeles, CA | $690,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Broad Institute Gemini | Cambridge, MA | $604,951 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cornell University - the Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College | New York, NY | $574,998 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Broad Institute Inc | Pasadena, CA | $513,181 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Jolla Country Day | La Jolla, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $446,131 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Broad Institute | Cambridge, MA | $443,415 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Cleveland, OH | $306,667 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Medical College Cornell | New York, NY | $302,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lyell Immunopharma (fka Immpact Bio USA Inc) | West Hills, CA | $259,122 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $247,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Insititue of Molecular Cell Biology | Immunos | $247,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $234,576 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Cancer Research | Schaumburg, IL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hias Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stand Up to Cancer | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stanford | Stanford, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dana - Farber Cancer Gemini Institute | Boston, MA | $187,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Jolla Institute for Immunology Gemini | La Jolla, CA | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Jolla Institute Immunology | La Jolla, CA | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Whitehead Institute | Cambridge, MA | $160,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University the Joan & Sandford Weil Medical College | New York, NY | $150,695 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | Philadelphia, PA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Massachusettes General Hospital | Boston, MA | $101,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cancer Researach Institute | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cancer Research Institute | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Firework Foundationepic Entertainment | North Stillwater, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scripps Health Foundation | San Diego, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| MIT Gemini | Cambridge, MA | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emory University School of Medicine | Atlanta, GA | $76,890 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Association San Diego Foundation | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Int Committee of the Red Cross | Geneva, Geneva | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medicins Sans Frontieres | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
13 of 48 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 31%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The Entertainment Industry Foundation
DONATION TO SU2C/EIF TO FUND CERTAIN CANCER RESEARCH PROJECTS. - UC San Diego Foundation
INSTITUTE FOR NETWORK MEDICINE FOR A STUDY ENTITLED "RAPID TRANSLATION OF NOVEL IMMUNE CELL-TARGETED THERAPEUTICS IN ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL CANCERS", INSTITUTE FOR NETWORK MEDICINE FOR RESEARCH OF THE AREA OF GASTRIC CANCER, AND MOORES CANCER CENTER IMMUNOTHERAPY INNOVATION FUND. - Columbia University
FOR CENTRALIZING GASTROESOPHAGEAL CANCER RESOURCES GIFT FUND, GRANT PROPOSAL" GENERATING GASTROESOPHAGEAL TUMOR TISSUE MICROARRAYTS", TO ESTABLISH THE TORREY COAST STRATEGIC RESEARCH FUND, WHICH SHALL BE USED TO SUPPORT GASTRIC AND ESOPHAGEAL CANCER RESEARCH, TO CONDUCT THE SCIENCE DESCRIBED IN DR. WANG AND BASS'S PROPOSAL,"TARGETING MYELOID CELLS TO ENHANCE IMMUNOTHERAPY TARGETING T CELLS", AND FOR GRANT PROPOSAL" GENERATING GASTROESOPHAGEAL TUMOR TISSUE MICROARRAYTS". - Cornell University - the Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College
TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE WORK OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF RESEARCH TO GENERATE INFORMATION ON THE MECHANISMS OF "DIFFUSE" MESENCHYMAL TYPE OF GASTRIC CANCER AND TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE WORK OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF RESEARCH IN IDENTIFYING AND TESTING EVIDENCE-BASED TARGETED THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES IN GASTRIC CANCER: TARGETING TGF AND THE IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT. - Weill Medical College of Cornell University
MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - The Broad Institute Inc
FOR THE PROJECT, ADAPTING 3D CANCER ORGANOIDS INTO MONOLAYER CELL LINES TO EXPAND MODEL UTILIZATION AND FOR SCREENING COMPOUNDS USING THE PRISM SCREENING PLATFORM.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 26 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $2,879,425 | $279,500 |
| 2021 | 4 | $1,166,667 | $253,333 |
| 2022 | 15 | $6,638,495 | $247,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $6,486,061 | $150,695 |
| 2024 | 25 | $10.7M | $249,731 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Torrey Coast Foundation has 17 of them, worth $12.3M. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| The Entertainment Industry Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $4,500,000 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $2,000,000 |
| University of California San Diego (uc San Diego) | La Jolla, CA | $1,000,000 |
| SU2C Amendment #3 - Project 3 | Los Angeles, CA | $690,000 |
| UC San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $600,000 |
| UC San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $600,000 |
| Broad Institute Gemini | Cambridge, MA | $586,466 |
| Gateway Cancer Research | Schaumburg, IL | $500,000 |
| SU2C Amendment #4 | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $396,426 |
| Cornell University - the Joan and Sanford I Weill Medical College | New York, NY | $200,000 |
| Dana - Farber Cancer Gemini Institute | Boston, MA | $187,500 |
| La Jolla Institute Immunology | La Jolla, CA | $175,000 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $150,000 |
| Broad Institute | Pasadena, CA | $127,644 |
Where its money goes
52% of its giving went to organizations in California. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $200,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Torrey Coast Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 5930 Cornerstone Court West 300, San Diego, CA, 92121. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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