Welcome to the Catalyst Philanthropy Portal

The portal was launched on February 5th, 2026!

Access for all Catalyst members, their grantees, and all nonprofits and foundations in San Diego and Imperial Counties will be available until October 2028

The Catalyst Philanthropy Portal is the most complete, insightful, and accessible data platform to understand how philanthropy in San Diego & Imperial Counties looks like.

The portal offers funders, nonprofits, researchers, and journalists an in-depth analysis of the San Diego & Imperial Counties philanthropic sector's size, financial sustainability, staffing, and the institutional philanthropy that supports it.

It's quick and easy! Click to register

After answering a few simple questions, you'll land right in the Portal.

Impala transforms millions of public fillings (990 forms) into insightful profiles for every nonprofit and foundation in the U.S. Then, Impala's Ecosystems engine aggregates many of the information in these profiles into customized sub-sectors ("ecosystems") that describe philanthropy in San Diego & Imperial Counties. Ecosystems can be based on geography, cause areas, specific organizational characteristics, or any combination of these attributes.

Nonprofits and funders can upload any missing or recent 990s to enhance the dataset

Data is constantly being updated on a regular basis, as it becomes available.

When organizations update their profiles (e.g. programs, people, impact), this data is available immediately. Any 990s uploaded by nonprofits or funders are processed in several days. And as the IRS makes data available at scale for a particular fiscal year (e.g. 2023), we update our systems accordingly. That said, by encouraging organizations to upload their recent 990s, together we can bypass the longstanding issue of the IRS' data lag. As a result of our dynamic approach to gathering data, the Catalyst Hub is the most complete and up-to-date source of information on the San Diego & Imperial Counties philanthropic field and the organizations in it.

Full access to the Catalyst Portal, covering every nonprofit based in and foundation that is funding in San Diego & Imperial Counties.

This offer applies to all:

All Catalyst members, their grantees, and nonprofits and foundations across San Diego & Imperial Counties have access to the Portal

Most of Impala's data is sourced directly from Form 990s that have been released by the IRS.

The data is supplemented by additional 990 uploads by users, self-reported profile information, and some third party sources. While we make insightful public and user-generated data available on the platform, your organization and individual data privacy and security are top priorities to us. To learn more, see our Help Center, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.

We believe transparency shouldn’t come at the cost of privacy.

Impala uses the latest data privacy and security tools. But more importantly, we put control in your hands by giving you the power to edit any information you add to your profile, at any time.

Absolutely not.

We’re extremely mindful that nonprofits have far more important work to do. That’s why we’ve pre-built your profile on Impala using data that's already publicly available, and signing-up and claiming this profile takes less than 2 minutes. Once you have completed to short onboarding steps, you'll have free access to Impala!

Reach out to support@impala.digital, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.