San Diego Press Club Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330437019
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8582151619
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,279
- Expenses
- $50,646
- Assets
- $20,127
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Fiorina (President)
- Charlene Pulsonetti (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Fiorina (President)
- Charlene Pulsonetti (Vice President)
- Susanna Peredo Swap (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The San Diego Press Club (SDPC) is open to all members of the press, including journalists, public relations professionals, bloggers, and other media professionals. The SDPC provides a wide range of services, scholarships and resources to its members, including access to a variety of news sources, lectures and workshops, and networking opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The San Diego Press Club advances journalism and communications through various educational and professional development initiatives. In 2025, the organization awarded $4,000 in scholarships to 2 local students pursuing a career in communications, funded primarily through its 52nd Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards event which honored over 300 professionals. The organization also hosted free educational webinars focusing on storytelling and arts writing, reaching 60 members live and expanding its impact through subsequent YouTube views. Additionally, the Club fostered professional networking through its All-Media Holiday Party, which was offered free to members and brought together 60 participants from various local press organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.5%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.5% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.