Feeding San Diego
San Diego, CA · EIN 26-0457477. Reported 53 grants totalling $1,910,000 to 45 organizations across tax years 2019-2024, 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 Feeding San Diego, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 21% 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. 10% 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 $18,681. Half of what it reported fell between $9,960 and $35,360; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $300,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial Valley Food Bank | Imperial, CA | $399,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Life Christian Center International Ministries of San Diego | Chula Vista, CA | $173,480 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tricity Pantry | San Marcos, CA | $109,417 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| I Am My Brothers Keeper Cdc | San Diego, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Food Connection | San Diego, CA | $94,261 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $89,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equation Collaborative Corp | Encinitas, CA | $64,963 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Third Avenue Charitable Organization Inc | San Diego, CA | $59,041 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Mcalister Institute for Treatment and Education Inc | El Cajon, CA | $54,327 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bethesda Recovery Center | Vista, CA | $52,988 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stepping Higher Inc | La Mesa, CA | $45,968 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Brother Benno Foundation Inc | Oceanside, CA | $45,572 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $44,099 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| First Christian Church | Oceanside, CA | $41,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Heavens Windows | Spring Valley, CA | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Diego Rescue Mission Inc | San Diego, CA | $37,708 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Lived Experiences Inc | Oceanside, CA | $37,164 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fallbrook Food Pantry | Fallbrook, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Webstaurant Store | Lititz, PA | $32,089 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Through Hope | Chula Vista, CA | $31,875 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Foothills United Methodist Church | La Mesa, CA | $31,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of San Diego Inc | San Diego, CA | $29,476 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Santee Food Bank | Santee, CA | $26,118 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North County Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning Resource | Oceanside, CA | $25,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North County Lgbtq Resource Center | Oceanside, CA | $21,246 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation | San Diego, CA | $16,665 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pastor of Our Lady of Mt Carmel Catholic Parish San Diego in San D | San Diego, CA | $14,840 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eres Enterprises Inc | San Marcos, CA | $13,584 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Risinghope Outreach | Alpine, CA | $11,482 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ocean View Church San Diego | San Diego, CA | $11,391 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wesley House Student Residence Inc | San Diego, CA | $11,121 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | Rcho Santa Fe, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Students Without Limits | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Project 1-1 | San Diego, CA | $9,960 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Faith Lutheran Church & Schools | Vista, CA | $9,738 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Masjidul Taqwa | San Diego, CA | $9,284 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| T E R I Inc | Oceanside, CA | $8,990 | 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Trinity Lutheran School | San Diego, CA | $8,409 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Salvation Army | Rch Palos Vrd, CA | $8,286 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Christian Church | National City, CA | $7,623 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ramona First Baptist Church | Ramona, CA | $6,806 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Associated Students of California State University San Marcos | San Marcos, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ Community Church of San Diego Inc | San Diego, CA | $5,704 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ocean Beach Emergency Food Incorporated | San Diego, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Diego Journey Community Church | La Mesa, CA | $5,275 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
7 of 45 (16%) received money in more than one year over the 6 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.
- Life Christian Center International Ministries of San Diego
SHELVING/SHRINK WRAP/BOX TRUCK - Tricity Pantry
REFRIGERATED VAN/VAN WRAP - I Am My Brother's Keeper Cdc
CONTAINER, TRUCK REPAIRS, TRUCK WRAP, RAMP, TABLES, ROLLING CART - The Community Food Connection
REFRIGERATED VAN/CONVEYORS - Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc
WALK-IN FREEZER AND WALK-IN REFRIGERATOR - Equation Collaborative Corp
SUPPORT FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 27 of 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | $445,395 | $27,317 |
| 2020 | 9 | $123,394 | $10,391 |
| 2021 | 21 | $846,118 | $18,681 |
| 2022 | 14 | $439,561 | $25,959 |
| 2023 | 1 | $9,960 | $9,960 |
| 2024 | 1 | $45,572 | $45,572 |
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
98% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $18,681 -- 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 Feeding San Diego's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2019-2024). 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 1 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: 9477 Waples Street 100, San Diego, CA, 92121.
EIN 26-0457477 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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