The San Diego Women's Foundation
San Diego, CA · EIN 33-0907092. Reported 48 grants totalling $1,447,206 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The San Diego Women's Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 11% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $14,687 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,855 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elderhelp of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $126,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Monarch School Project | San Diego, CA | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Serving Seniors | San Diego, CA | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mending Matters | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Social Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bayside Community Center | San Diego, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Palomar Family Counseling Service Inc | Escondido, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Campanile Foundation | San Diego, CA | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coastal Roots Farm | Encinitas, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Women Warriors | Vista, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Just in Time for Foster Youth | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kitchens for Good | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Logan Heights Community Development Corporation | San Diego, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Heights Community Development Corporation | San Diego, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alpha Project for the Homeless | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| CASA Familiar Inc | San Ysidro, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guitars in the Classroom | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solutions for Change Inc | Vista, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Growth | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Episcopal Community Services | National City, CA | $29,080 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| CASA De Amparo | San Marcos, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| California State Wildlife Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Nations Association of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $15,855 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Campo Band of Mission Indians (kumeyaay Nation) | Campo, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indigenous Regeneration | Valley Center, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lipay Nation of Santa Ysabel | Santa Ysabel, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Indian Health Council | Alpine, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Call Blackline | Spring Valley, CA | $14,687 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach and Urban Redevelopment | San Diego, CA | $14,687 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Womens East African Support Team | San Diego, CA | $14,687 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Environmental Health Coalition | National City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harvey Family Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muslim American Society of San Diego County | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center Inc | National City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| SANDIEGO350 | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Families | El Cajon, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban Collaborative Project | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| License to Freedom | El Cajon, CA | $5,855 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Diego Afghan Refugees Aid Group | San Diego, CA | $5,855 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
6 of 40 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Campanile Foundation
FOR THE HEALTHY EARLY YEARS CLINIC AT THE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT - Coastal Roots Farm
FOR GENERAL UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT - California State Wildlife Foundation
FOR CLIMATE SCIENCE ALLIANCE - TRIBAL WORKING GROUP - Campo Band of Mission Indians (kumeyaay Nation)
A SDWF, AVILA FUND & SDF COLLABORATION SUPPORTING INDIGENOUS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY - Depositing Empowerment Through Outreach & Urban Redevelop
SDWF LGC RACIAL JUSTICE GRANT 2020 - Call Blackline
TO SUPPORT MARCH FOR BLACK WOMEN SAN DIEGO FOR SDWF LGC RACIAL JUSTICE GRANT 2020
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 33 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $360,061 | $30,000 |
| 2021 | 9 | $265,000 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 10 | $290,645 | $29,540 |
| 2023 | 8 | $264,000 | $15,750 |
| 2024 | 10 | $267,500 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The San Diego Women's Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2508 Historic Decatur Road 200, San Diego, CA, 92106.
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