PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

5000

Street

3255 CAMINO DEL RIO S

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FOUNDATION'S PROGRAMS:A.B. AND JESSIE POLINSKY CHILDREN'S CENTER - PREVIOUSLY THE FOUNDATION RAISED $12 MILLION TO BUILD THE A.B.AND JESSIE POLINSKY CHILDREN'S CENTER (THE POLINSKY CENTER), SAN DIEGO COUNTY'S EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN. IN OCTOBER 1994, THE FOUNDATION DEEDED THE FACILITY TO THE COUNTY. THE POLINSKY CENTER OFFERS A FULL RANGE OF ASSESSMENT AND CARE PROGRAMS TO MORE THAN 1,000 CHILDREN EVERY YEAR. THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE POLINSKY CENTER BY RAISING FUNDS FOR THE URGENT AND LONG-TERM NEEDS OF THE YOUNG RESIDENTS DURING THEIR STAY. THE FOLLOWING ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS AT THE POLINSKY CENTER SUPPORTED BY THE FOUNDATION DURING THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2025. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. KIDSTART YOUTH2YOUTH ADVOCATES PROGRAM PET THERAPY PROGRAM HEALTH, RECREATION, AND WELLNESS PROGRAMGUARDIAN SCHOLARS - GUARDIAN SCHOLARS IS A SCHOLARSHIP AND SUPPORT PROGRAM THAT WAS ESTABLISHED TO ASSIST CURRENT AND FORMER FOSTER YOUTH TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION OR PREPARE FOR A CAREER AND BECOME SUCCESSFUL, INDEPENDENT ADULTS. THE PROGRAM IS MUCH MORE THAN JUST FINANCIAL AID - IT IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE OF EACH INDIVIDUAL RECIPIENT. GUARDIAN SCHOLARS PROVIDES MULTIFACETED SUPPORT THROUGH MENTORING, CAREER AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING, TUTORING, COLLEGE PLANNING, FINANCIAL AID, COLLEGE APPLICATION WORKSHOPS, AND CASE MANAGEMENT.CAMP CONNECT - THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES SIBLINGS IN FOSTER CARE, WHO ARE PLACED IN SEPARATE HOMES, THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECONNECT THROUGH A FOUR-DAY SUMMER CAMP, AS WELL AS RECREATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL DAY CAMP ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. CAMP CONNECT ALLOWS BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO MAINTAIN CRITICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND GAIN SUPPORT FROM EACH OTHER DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME. THIS PROGRAM IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY.FOSTER FUNDS - THE FOUNDATION UNDERSTANDS THAT FOSTER CHILDREN OFTEN FEEL ALONE AND ISOLATED. THEY MAY GO WITHOUT SIMPLE PLEASURES OF CHILDHOOD SUCH AS BIRTHDAY GIFTS, CAP AND GOWN FOR GRADUATION, A SPORTS UNIFORM OR A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. WE ENSURE FOSTER CHILDREN KNOW THAT THEY TOO ARE HEARD, SPECIAL AND DESERVING. THE FOUNDATION HAS SPECIAL FUNDS SET UP TO SUPPORT THESE NEEDS NOT MET THROUGH TYPICAL FUNDING, WHICH INCLUDE SOMETHING SPECIAL FUND, BIRTHDAY CLUB, AND COMMUNITY DRIVES.

  Expenses $7,876,996 · Grants $1,530,351

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $7,161,476

  Expenses

  $10,084,998

  Contributions

  $6,223,218

  Grants paid

  $1,530,351

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,007,937

  Expenses

  $9,564,576

  Contributions

  $6,019,556

  Grants paid

  $1,317,446

• 2022

  Revenue

  $9,405,403

  Expenses

  $8,020,515

  Contributions

  $8,369,252

  Grants paid

  $1,234,446

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,317,382

  Expenses

  $6,601,011

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,939,955

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,135,015

  Expenses

  $5,600,282

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,452,558

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,650,009

  Expenses

  $5,603,174

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,710,069

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,658,227

  Expenses

  $5,234,256

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,886,152

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,658,227

  Expenses

  $5,234,256

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,886,152

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,541,032

  Expenses

  $4,172,031

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,265,829

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,879,225

  Expenses

  $3,711,115

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,323,515

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,889,315

  Expenses

  $2,966,843

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,489,749

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,996,650

  Expenses

  $2,686,097

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,553,382

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,328,792

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,868,563

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• RADY'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL

  $214,356

  2023 · ENHANCEMENT

• RADY'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL

  $209,356

  2024 · ENHANCEMENT

• RADY'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL

  $194,668

  2022 · ENHANCEMENT

• HEALTHY ADVENTURES FOUNDATION

  $115,519

  2024 · ENHANCEMENT

• HEALTHY ADVENTURES FOUNDATION

  $111,666

  2022 · ENHANCEMENT

• HEALTHY ADVENTURES FOUNDATION

  $99,711

  2023 · ENHANCEMENT

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Grants received

• LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION

  $487,061

  2025 · PROGRAMS

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $341,950

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $294,000

  2023 · DREAM ON CONCERT GALA

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $255,904

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $242,100

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $238,750

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $228,628

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $136,550

  2024 · FOR THE 2024 DREAM ON CONCERT

• CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO

  $136,223

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $124,620

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• COREY POLANT

  $822,509 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $766,746 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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