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SAN DIEGO SQUARED

EIN 85-3336715 SAN DIEGO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,668,522
Expenses 2024
$1,384,413

Program services were 81.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
2000
Street
1100 MARKET ST STE 338

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

To advance workforce and talent development within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") sectors by fostering excellence in education, expanding access to opportunities, and delivering transformative resources to empower underrepresented and underserved communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

San Diego Squared is dedicated to advancing workforce development and talent development in STEM through four key areas of engagement. Firstly, our Community Activation initiative focuses on fostering a vibrant community that champions the belief that workforce diversity is integral to STEM. This is achieved through compelling storytelling, accessible on our website sd.org, and dynamic events such as our affinity dinners, ERG leaders' gatherings, and SD2 All Hands events. Secondly, our Squared Fellows Program offers a year-long mentorship-based experience for approximately 60 high school students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds. This program connects them with STEM-driven companies, facilitates career exploration, and helps them envision their future roles in STEM. Thirdly, our Squared Scholars Program provides multi-year college scholarships to students from underrepresented backgrounds pursuing STEM degrees. This comprehensive program includes personalized 1:1 mentor

  • Squared Scholars: San Diego Squared invests directly in the success of underrepresented high school and college students and their educators. The Organization partners with innovative companies, foundations, and community leaders who take action and send a clear message: You belong in STEM. The Organization's scholarships are either direct financial support or pay for the fees to STEM-centered programs offered throughout San Diego County by one of the Organization's partners

    Expenses $658,355

  • Events: In partnership with other organizations, San Diego Squared hosts life science camps, coding camps, panel discussions, and other opportunities for students, educators, and their families to engage in STEM-related fields.

    Expenses $159,662

  • Squared FellowsA year long, rotation-based mentorship program for underrepresented high school 10th-12thgraders in San Diego County who are interested in STEM. In this immersive program, studentsconnect with a network of advocates and have front row access to some of San Diego's mostinnovative companies, all to help students design their unique roadmap to get where they want togo in STEM.

    Expenses $154,466 · Revenue $67,833

  • Squared Interns: Internships can provide a gateway to full-time employment in STEM-driven companies. The Organization has identified opportunities for interns and has recruited champions within some of San Diego County's most innovative companies that are ready to help interns succeed. San Diego Squared matches promising underrepresented undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students pursuing STEM-centered degrees to paid internships.STEM CapsulesThe San Diego Squared STEM Capsules are short videos that aim to build awareness,inspiration, and STEM representation for underrepresented students. Working in partnership witha video production company, the Organization created a display of videos highlighting committedSTEM professionals sharing their stories, challenges, and advice with the aim to strengthen theSTEM identity in students.SD2 Qtrly All HandsA quarterly event beginning in 2022 where San Diego Squared brings together students, parents,educators, STEM professionals, and student organizations to strengthen the community thatbelieves that diversity belongs in STEM. San Diego Squared shares best practices andopportunities for collaboration and champion thesuccesses throughout the community.

    Expenses $159,460 · Grants $120,000

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.

  • Alexander Bolante

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Anne Marbarger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Arvind Kush

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Bill Rastetter PhD

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • carlos ramirez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Chad Urie

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Charles Theuer MD PhD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Darin Lippoldt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Gentry Patrick PhD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Julie Cooke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Linda Sierra

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mike Hird

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Pantea Khodami

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Patricia Leckman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Paul Vaden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Harid Puentes

    Co-Founder

    Total calculated
    $215,763
    From this org
    $215,763
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $215,763
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $215,763

  • Karmin Noar

    COO

    Total calculated
    $195,283
    From this org
    $195,283
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,283
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $195,283

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
    $1,668,522
    Expenses
    $1,384,413
    Contributions
    $1,439,944
    Grants paid
    $120,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,594,405
    Expenses
    $1,168,789
    Contributions
    $1,226,136
    Grants paid
    $30,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,319,826
    Expenses
    $1,001,192
    Contributions
    $1,159,109
    Grants paid
    $30,000

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
    $783,793
    Expenses
    $535,108
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,862,856

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,055,464
    Expenses
    $245,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,476,977

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

  • UC San Diego Foundation

    $120,000

    2024 Undergraduate scholarships to students participating in PATHways to STEM program at UC San Diego

  • UC San Diego Foundation

    $30,000

    2023 Undergraduate scholarships to students participating in PATHways to STEM program at UC San Diego

  • UC San Diego Foundation

    $0

    2022 Undergraduate scholarships to students participating in PATHways to STEM program at UC San Diego

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.