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- EIN 95-3709639
- info@rsffoundation.org
- (858) 756-6557
- 162 S Rancho Santa Fe Rd Suite B-30 Encinitas CA 92024 USA
- https://rsffoundation.org/
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community Foundations, Philanthropy
Mission: To connect donors with regional and global needs through visionary community leadership, personalized service and effective grantmaking.
Programs: The rancho santa fe foundation supports a wide variety of causes every year through grants made from its donor advised funds and unrestricted endowment funds. Grants that are funded from donor advised funds are based on donor-advisor recommendations and those from unrestricted endowment funds are at the discretion of the organization's grants and projects committee. The foundation manages charitable funds for individuals through their donor advised funds and for other non-profits through the endowment and non-endowment funds charging a small fee for the services.
in 2014, the rancho santa fe foundation, along with two other local non-profits, entered into a collaborative program called "north county senior connections" to offer food truck lunches and socialization opportunities for vulnerable seniors in north san diego county. In 2017, the final year of the commitment, the foundation's grants and projects committee contributed nearly $266,000 to the program from its discretionary grant fund, supporting the delivery of 27,000 meals to nearly 2,100 unduplicated seniors during the four-year program.
in 2017, the rancho santa fe women's fund made 7 grants totaling $234,194. Grants ranged in size from $18,000 - $50,000 and focused on nonprofits working in the areas of military services and youth at risk. The mission of the rancho santa fe women's fund is to educate, inspire and increase the number of women committed to philanthropy in order to strengthen the community and impact lives through informed, focused collective giving.
the patriots connection, a program of the rancho santa fe foundation, strives to raise the awareness of and provide funding for the needs of the military through nonprofit service providers in san diego county. San diego has the largest concentration of military in the nation and in 2017, active duty, veterans and their dependents benefitted from grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to 15 different organizations for a total of nearly $176,000.