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Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$71,410
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
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
FY2024still arriving11$165k82%
FY20231$10k0%
FY20221$25k100%
FY20208$7kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$125kHealth$43kInternational$10kHuman Services$9kReligion$7kEnvironment$5kHousing & Shelter$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
IA
CA
AZ
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John 316 Mission$8,97620%
Canal Alliance$5,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Des Moines Christian Schools$5,00010%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Homeworthy$5,00010%
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$3,50010%
Foundation for Blind Children$2,50010%
St Stephen Church$5001n/a
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All grantees of Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John 316 Mission$8,97620%
Canal Alliance$5,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Des Moines Christian Schools$5,00010%
Rainforest Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Homeworthy$5,00010%
Tulsa Ballet Theatre Inc$3,50010%
Foundation for Blind Children$2,50010%
St Stephen Church$5001n/a
Tulsa Opera Inc$50010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn 316 Mission: $8,976 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanal Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDes Moines Christian Schools: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeworthy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Ballet Theatre Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Blind Children: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Opera Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation

How much does Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation give?
Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $165,379 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (60%), Health (20%), International (5%).
Who are Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: John 316 Mission ($9k), Canal Alliance ($5k), International Rescue Committee INC ($5k).
Does Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Jose & Laura B Medina Foundation based?
Jose & Laura B Medina 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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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