It is with gratitude that we welcome you to The San Diego Foundation website. Through your visit you have already told us something important. Together, we share a passion for San Diego, an appreciation of its sights, culture and people, and a commitment to ensuring it remains an extraordinary place to live, work and play.
This year we are extremely pleased to mark an important milestone: our 35th year as San Diego’s largest community foundation. We look back with pride on the three and a half decades we have partnered with individuals, families, companies and nonprofit organizations to sustain and enhance our outstanding region for generations to come.
Throughout our history, members of our San Diego community have proven over and over again that they are dedicated to this unique region. Through such tragedies as the 2007 wildfires and the recent recession, individuals, families, corporations and nonprofit organizations have banded together to prove that they will be there for all of our communities, to invest in our environment, our arts and culture, our fellow citizens, our next generation. This community is tireless. It is resilient. It is strong. And that is why The San Diego Foundation has found so much success over the years. Because we have partnered with a community that looks to its challenges with a fierce passion to overcome them, and to its achievements with a desire to do even more.
Our most recent successes prove it. Last year, despite the difficult economy, The San Diego Foundation’s family of donors granted $60 million to worthy charities, nearly the same recordbreaking amount as the previous year, when the economic news was decidedly brighter. 113 new funds were established, 45 of them endowment funds, and The San Diego Foundation marked yet another milestone, surpassing $650 million in grants since our inception.
It all comes down to what we value. At The Foundation, we value our work in enhancing the San Diego region. We value working with incredible volunteers, donors and staff members in our mutual understanding that we live in a special place – that we must preserve it and help build an even better future. We will not forget what we held close when we needed to make tough decisions about what mattered most. For us, and for our generous donors, volunteers and staff members, the San Diego region itself was, and always will be, one of our greatest common treasures.
We thank you for being a part of our history, a part of our success. We thank you for your passion for San Diego. And we look forward to working together for years to come.
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Gerald (Jerry) E. Hoffmeister
Chair, Board of Governors |
Bob Kelly
President & CEO
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