California · Private foundation
Mdm Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $525,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Mdm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $1.0M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $635k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $699k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $435k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego Humane Society and Spca | $1,575,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lucky Duck Foundation | $295,000 | 4 | 2% |
| No Limits Theater Group Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest | $155,000 | 2 | 0% |
| One Story at a Time Inc | $105,283 | 4 | 33% |
| Feeding San Diego | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Diego Coastkeeper | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Workin Whiskers Inc | $38,980 | 2 | n/a |
| San Diego Youth Services | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego Humane Society and Spca | $1,575,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lucky Duck Foundation | $295,000 | 4 | 2% |
| No Limits Theater Group Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest | $155,000 | 2 | 0% |
| One Story at a Time Inc | $105,283 | 4 | 33% |
| Feeding San Diego | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Diego Coastkeeper | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Workin Whiskers Inc | $38,980 | 2 | n/a |
| San Diego Youth Services | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New Childrens Museum | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's San Diego | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Orquesta Guadalupana | $24,979 | 1 | n/a |
| Forever Balboa Park | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cancer for College | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mind What Matters Fka Blue Bayou Collective | $15,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Secor | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Seau Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mdm Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Mdm Foundation
- How much does Mdm Foundation give?
- Mdm Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,019,979 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Mdm Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (55%), Arts & Culture (15%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are Mdm Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: San Diego Humane Society and Spca ($1.6M), Lucky Duck Foundation ($295k), No Limits Theater Group Inc ($175k).
- Does Mdm Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mdm 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 Mdm Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Price Philanthropies Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
- Where is Mdm Foundation based?
- Mdm Foundation is based in CA.
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