The Country Friends
Rancho Santa Fe, CA · EIN 95-6514998. Reported 50 grants totalling $521,993 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $12,000; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $20,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vista Hill Foundation | San Diego, CA | $39,000 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| CASA De Amparo | San Marcos, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rise Up Industries | Santee, CA | $22,130 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Maya Relief Foundation | Rancho Santa Fe, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mitchell Thorp Foundation | Carlsbad, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Generate Hope | San Diego, CA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Walden Environment | San Diego, CA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| San Diego Rescue Mission | San Diego, CA | $15,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | Rcho Santa Fe, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| La Colonia De Eden Gardens | Solana Beach, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| PROMISES2KIDS Foundation | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Voices of Our City Choir Inc | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kitchens for Good | San Diego, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womens Resource Center | Oceanside, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lucky Duck Foundation | San Diego, CA | $12,400 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| California Scottish Rite Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Armed Services YMCA of the USA | Woodbridge, VA | $11,763 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| A Step Beyond | Escondido, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Center for Community Solution | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emilio Nares Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Greater La Jolla Meals-on-Wheels Inc | La Jolla, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jacobs & Cushman Sd Food Bank | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Olive Wood Gardens & Learning | National City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Refuge for Women Socal | Escondido, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Global | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| San Diego Brain Injury Founda | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Marcos Promise | San Marcos, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shelter to Soldier Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Social Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Solutions for Change | Vista, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Assistance League | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Conners Cause for Children | Encinitas, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mana De San Diego | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oncology & Kids | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern Sundanese Community | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Special Needs Resource Founda | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Think Dignity | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys to Men | Charlotte, NC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palomar Family Counseling Service Inc | Escondido, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Connectmed International | La Jolla, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lucky Duck Foundation | Carlsbad, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Shoreline Community Services | San Diego, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Comfort Cub | Encinitas, CA | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
5 of 43 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- Girls Rising
RECRUIT, TRAIN & PROVIDE SUPPORT FO - Kitchens for Good
TRAINING FOR 100 INDIVIDUALS IN THE - Light Bridge Hospice
FUND THE "WE HONOR VETERANS" PROGRA - Community Resource Center
PURCHASE PROGRAM & TRAINING MATERIA - Kids Turn
FAMILY WORKSHOP MARKETING MATERIALS - A Step Beyond
PURCHASE MARKET PLACE ITEMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 16 of 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $115,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $159,200 | $9,000 |
| 2025 | 23 | $247,793 | $10,000 |
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
94% 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 $10,000 -- 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 Country Friends's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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: Po Box 142, Rancho Santa Fe, CA, 92067.
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