San Diego Rescue Mission is a non-profit homeless shelter and recovery center serving thousands of homeless, hungry, and poor men, women, and children in San Diego since 1955.

Donate Money

One of our greatest needs comes in the simplest of forms: a monetary donation.

By contributing a tax-deductible gift to the San Diego Rescue Mission, you ensure we continue to provide the comprehensive programs that permanently change lives for the poor and homeless in San Diego.

At the San Diego Rescue Mission, we take great care to use every penny efficiently spending over 84% of all revenue on programmatic expenses.

We are pleased to work with you to create a customized giving strategy best fits your needs. One way we do this is to provide a few options:

Donate Your Money

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Give Now

Each day we serve hundreds of clients who desperately need us, many of whom would otherwise be on the streets. Your gift today helps us ensure every San Diegan has the opportunity for a better life.

Give Regularly

Recurring DonationYour recurring gift provides more than food and shelter. It also gives us the confidence to know that we can count on your support to continually serve the men, women and children in need in San Diego. Once you sign up you can choose an amount to be charged automatically to your credit card or drawn from your bank account in the beginning or middle of each month.  You are welcome to cancel at any time.

Make your tax-deductible contribution now and make a difference for San Diego’s homeless and poor.

We know you have many options to spend your hard-earned dollars, and cannot put into words how much we appreciate your support!


Where Your Dollars Go

We are proud to give you a quick snapshot of just how far your gifts go toward helping San Diegans in need.

$34.80 Provides hot, nutritious meals for 20 homeless and hungry San Diegans
$73.07 Supplies two homeless men with 24-hours of shelter, education programs, therapy and work study in our Men’s Center
$121.36 Offers a homeless and/or abused mother and child 24-hours of shelter, care, classes and study in our Women and Children’s Center
$480 Redistributes 2,000 pounds of extra food from local stores, restaurants and sports venues to feed the homeless through our Partners in Hunger Relief program
$992.40 Operates Nueva Vida Haven   for one night, our emergency shelter for 60 women and children who have no where else to go.