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CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO

EIN 47-4949185 SAN DIEGO, CA

Revenue 2024
$5,086,419
Expenses 2024
$2,252,142

Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X11
Classification
1700
Street
4747 MORENA BLVD STE 300

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

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ORGANIZATION IS TO FOSTER A CULTURE OF CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP, PROVIDING A PLATFORM WHERE PEOPLE CAN CONNECT, LEARN, AND ACTIVELY CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELL BEING OF OUR SOCIETY THROUGH CATHOLIC PRINCIPLES. THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO FOSTER AND AMPLIFY CATHOLIC PHILANTHROPY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO FOSTER AND AMPLIFY CATHOLIC PHILANTHROPY.

  • THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO IS AN AUTONOMOUS PIOUS FOUNDATION FORMED UNDER CANON LAW AND A TAX-EXEMPT NONPROFIT UNDER CIVIL LAW. THE FOUNDATION IS INDEPENDENT FROM THE DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO AND HAS ITS OWN BOARD OF TRUSTEES. THE FOUNDATION SERVES AS A RESOURCE FOR CREATING CATHOLIC LEGACIES AS A SPECIAL FORM OF STEWARDSHIP. AS A COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLICS, WE ASSIST FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS TO PASS ALONG THEIR CATHOLIC HERITAGE AND VALUES TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.WE WORK TO ENCOURAGE CATHOLIC PHILANTHROPY AND THE STEWARDSHIP OF ASSETS TO GIVE BACK TO THE LORD FROM THE GIFTS HE HAS PROVIDED FOR US. WE MAKE CERTAIN THAT THE DONORS INTENTIONS ARE HONORED, AND HANDLE THE GRANTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE FUNDS.ESTATE AND PLANNED GIVING SEMINARS ARE OFFERED TO EACH OF OUR 98 PARISHES. IN THESE SEMINARS, WE TEACH PARISHIONERS HOW TO MAKE A GIFT FROM THEIR ASSETS THROUGH THEIR WILLS OR ESTATE PLANS.THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO HELPS BUILD PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUNDS FOR PARISHES, SCHOOLS AND ALL OTHER CATHOLIC MINISTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS. WE WORK WITH PARISH AND SCHOOL LEADERS TO GROW THE ENDOWMENT FUNDS BY ENCOURAGING CATHOLICS AND OTHERS TO LEAVE LEGACIES TO THE ENDOWMENTS. TYPICALLY, THE ORIGINAL CORPUS FOR THESE FUNDS IS NOT INVADED. EARNINGS FROM THE ENDOWMENT INVESTMENTS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE DONOR FOR DISTRIBUTION ON A SEMI-ANNUAL BASIS TO CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE NEAR AND DEAR TO THEIR HEARTS.ONCE ENDOWMENTS ARE ESTABLISHED, THESE FUNDS ARE INVESTED IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH CATHOLIC VALUES INVESTING (CVI) STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS. THEY ARE INVESTED IN A DIVERSIFIED MANNER TO PRESERVE AND GROW THE ENDOWMENTS. WE HANDLE THE ADMINISTRATIVE WORK FOR ENDOWMENT FUNDS AND PROVIDE GRANTS, UPON DONOR REQUEST, TO ASSIST OUR LOCAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY.IN ADDITION TO ENDOWMENT FUNDS, THE FOUNDATION ALSO SUPPORTS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PASS-THROUGH DONOR-ADVISED AND DESIGNATED FUNDS. BOTH OF THESE FUND TYPES FACILITATE GIVING AND MAKING AN IMPACT TODAY, TOMORROW AND IN FUTURE GENERATIONS. PASS-THROUGH DONOR-ADVISE FUNDS TEMPORARY IN NATURE, WITH FUNDS ON DEPOSIT FROM ONE MONTH TO SEVERAL YEARS. DISTRIBUTIONS FROM PASS-THROUGH DONOR-ADVISED FUNDS CAN BE DIRECTED BY DONORS TO NON-CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS, SUCH AS A DONORS ALMA MATER OR A NON-CATHOLIC CHARITY AS LONG AS ITS MISSION IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CATHOLIC VALUES. ONE OF THE KEY ADVANTAGES OF ESTABLISHING PASS-THROUGH DONOR-ADVISED FUNDS IS THAT THE DONOR RECEIVES AN IMMEDIATE, SINGLE TAX RECEIPT FROM THE FOUNDATION FOR THE GIFT AND THEN HAS SEVERAL MONTHS OR YEARS TO GRANT DISTRIBUTIONS TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FUTURE, AS DESIRED.

    Expenses $1,946,223 · Grants $1,820,205 · Revenue $255,747

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Manny Rubio

    Former Exec Dir

    Total calculated
    $113,343
    From this org
    $87,708
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,635
    Hours/week
    40

  • Will Peterson

    Executive Dir

    Total calculated
    $36,583
    From this org
    $36,583
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Very Rev Steven Callahan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Carter

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Buddy Thomas

    Treas & Sec

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Neilson

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dean Dwyer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janine Mason

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Viviana Honold

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bryan Gannon

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Schoettle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,086,419
    Expenses
    $2,252,142
    Contributions
    $3,229,980
    Grants paid
    $1,820,205
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,504,423
    Expenses
    $3,257,682
    Contributions
    $2,827,376
    Grants paid
    $2,800,748
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,838,986
    Expenses
    $3,156,868
    Contributions
    $3,106,768
    Grants paid
    $2,473,967

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
    $4,327,946
    Expenses
    $2,286,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,259,750

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,424,563
    Expenses
    $1,784,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,037,722

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,624,218
    Expenses
    $1,358,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,037,542

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,967,581
    Expenses
    $905,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,256,958

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,613,553
    Expenses
    $548,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,003,666

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,772,253
    Expenses
    $485,953
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,055,492

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $120,000
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,242,992

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.