The San Diego Foundation

How it makes and monitors grants (Schedule I, Part IV)

When a donor advised grant recommendation is received, san diego foundation's grants administration team researches the organization to ensure that the organization qualifies as having 501(c)(3) public charity tax exempt status or equivalent as required by the irs, by checking in the charity check database, guidestar. organizations existing in the database are verified annually. if the san diego foundation's last review was more than a year ago, if the recommended grantee has not previously been issued a grant, or if the ein is not listed in the san diego foundation's database, grants administration verifies public charity status through guidestar.org (a website that pulls tax exemption information from the internal revenue service database), searches for the organization directly on the irs website, or calls the internal revenue service to ensure its 501(c)(3) public charity status. provided the nonprofit is in good standing with the irs, the grant recommendation is processed through the weekly approval poll and forwarded to the president and ceo of the foundation for approval. grants $1,000,000 or above are sent to the executive committee of the board of governors of san diego foundation for approval. after approval is secured, the grant is distributed to the nonprofit organization. san diego foundation has three distinct types of grants with differing monitoring processes. 1. the competitive grant cycle is typically one year. either a six-month progress and twelve-month fi