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California Missions Foundation

Preservation & restoration of california's historic missions, presidios and related historic sites.

$154k
Granted FY2022
4
Itemized grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$120k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$42,922
Largest grant, FY2022
$56,969
Organizations funded a year
2 to 13
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$3.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations California Missions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20224$120k50%
FY20212$16k0%
FY202011$647k27%
FY20199$134k56%
FY201813$152k85%
FY20178$161kn/a
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$860kEducation$154kArts & Culture$20kCommunity Improvement$11kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mission San Juan Bautista Preservation Fund$110,357241%
Mission Santa Clara$10,0001n/a
Mission San Luis Rey$7,9251n/a

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

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How do I get to California Missions Foundation?

Find your warmest path to California Missions Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About California Missions Foundation

How much does California Missions Foundation give?
California Missions Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $119,516, out of $154,432 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does California Missions Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are California Missions Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Mission San Juan Bautista Preservation Fund ($110k), Mission Santa Clara ($10k), Mission San Luis Rey ($8k).
Does California Missions Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is California Missions Foundation based?
California Missions Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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