The San Diego Foundation

A regional community foundation connecting donors to causes so everyone in San Diego County can prosper and belong.

7named by peers

Financial profile

The San Diego Foundation · EIN 95-2942582 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$268,696,192$205,112,306$26,733,734$159,687,256$1,294,328,898Jun 2023
FY2022$283,565,373$214,827,270$6,789,766$179,913,602$1,148,867,569Jun 2022
FY2021$197,035,758$121,896,796$17,027,535$124,312,177$1,147,813,990Jun 2021
FY2020$147,340,158$86,134,513$19,977,620$95,120,818$926,527,740Jun 2020
FY2019$87,666,191$54,990,467$6,640,058$66,450,177$766,876,682Jun 2019
FY2018$155,789,645$138,396,808$9,904,036$83,562,644$740,069,162Jun 2018

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Peer societies

Five societies The San Diego Foundation is read alongside.

Who backs SDF

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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Who backs The San Diego Foundation's peers, but not The San Diego Foundation

Companies named publicly by at least one of The San Diego Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in The San Diego Foundation's reviewed public records.

CompanySFFMFPeers
Apple Computer, Inc.Named1 of 2
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Genentech, Inc.Named1 of 2
Google.orgNamed1 of 2
Xylem Inc.Named1 of 2

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The outside view

A regional community foundation connecting donors to causes so everyone in San Diego County can prosper and belong.

  • Consensus
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Village

Where everyone is known by name.

The Village is built on belonging, where everyone knows everyone and relationships are the point. Its gift is loyalty and warmth, its challenge is scaling beyond the intimacy that makes it work.

Also reads toward The Legacy and The Movement.

Strengths

→Tight community and genuine belonging.
→Decisions feel shared and fair.
→Members show up, for each other and the work.

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