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The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual

San Diego, CA · EIN 23-7332048. Reported 63 grants totalling $1,487,486 to 23 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$16,000median reported grant
$1,487,486granted, 2020-2023
74%of grantees funded again the next year
16%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G82Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 16% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $16,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,405 and $30,100; the smallest was $5,066 and the largest $78,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
35 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Equality Alliance of San Diego CountySan Diego, CA$244,750442023
Acce InstituteLos Angeles, CA$170,750332023
Mission Edge San DiegoSan Diego, CA$148,500442023
Environmental Health CoalitionNational City, CA$136,850442023
United Taxi Workers of San DiegoSan Diego, CA$93,750442023
Partnership for the Advancement of New AmericansSan Diego, CA$91,100442023
San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender PrideSan Diego, CA$77,865442023
Justice Overcoming Boundaries Job in San Diego CountySan Diego, CA$76,750442023
Viet VoicesSan Diego, CA$66,650332023
PozabilitiesSan Diego, CA$51,308332022
San Diego Organizing ProjectSan Diego, CA$50,000332022
Stepping Stone of San DiegoSan Diego, CA$44,815332022
Centro De Salud De La Comunidad De San Ysidro IncSan Ysidro, CA$35,049332022
Muslim American Society - SdSan Diego, CA$34,875222022
Fraternity House IncVista, CA$31,024332022
Center on Policy InitiativesSan Diego, CA$30,000112020
U C San Diego FoundationLa Jolla, CA$29,551332022
Regents of the University of California at San DiegoLa Jolla, CA$25,088332022
Muslim American Society of San Diego CountySan Diego, CA$15,500112020
Asian Pacific Islander Community Actions ApicaChula Vista, CA$13,000112020
ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial Counties IncSan Diego, CA$10,000112023
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program IncSan Diego, CA$5,245112021
Christies Place IncSan Diego, CA$5,066112020

17 of 23 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 23 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
5 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Civil Rights
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Environment
1 org
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202019$496,916$15,500
202117$302,399$12,500
202217$455,656$22,000
202310$232,515$21,500

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

San Diego, CA
$1.0M
Los Angeles, CA
$171K
National City, CA
$137K
La Jolla, CA
$55K
San Ysidro, CA
$35K
Vista, CA
$31K
Chula Vista, CA
$13K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The San Diego Foundation11 shared recipientsSilicon Valley Community Foundation8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsThe California Wellness Foundation7 shared recipientsUnited Way of San Diego County7 shared recipientsPrice Philanthropies Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $16,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. 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 Lesbian Gay Bisexual's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 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: Po Box 3357, San Diego, CA, 92163.

EIN 23-7332048 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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