How much did MDM FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of MDM FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$500,000
NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PACIFIC SOUTHWEST$30,000
ONE STORY AT A TIME$25,300
LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION$20,000
FOREVER BALBOA PARK$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+80%

Still filing today

29%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SD
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M
NL
NO LIMITS FOR DEAF CHILDREN
3× · 2022–2024 · $175k
LD
LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +53%

Funded once

TF
THRISTLE FARMS
one grant, 2022 · $50k
TN
THE NEW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $25k
SD
SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Uc San Diego Foundation

To advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.

Education

San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

San Diego State University Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education

Voice of San Diego

Investigative journalism for a better san diego.

Arts & Culture

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation improves the quality of life within all of our communities.

Philanthropy

San Diego Blood Bank

Connects diverse communities to save and improve lives through blood and biotherapies.

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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Basic research in the following: molecular biology & genetics, neuroscience, and plant biology.

Science & Tech

Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy provided expertise, advocacy and resources to envision, enhance and sustain Balboa Park (the "Park") for all visitors in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the…

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American Chemical Society - San Diego

Promotion, awareness and support in the field of chemistry

Science & Tech

San Diego Opera Association

The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…

Arts & Culture

San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture

Zoological Society of San Diego

An international, nonprofit conservation organization with two front doors: the san diego zoo and the san diego zoo safari park, we integrate wildlife health and care, science, and education to develop sustainable conservation solutions.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is The Gathering Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

10/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,493,980Health$255,000Food & Nutrition$105,283Human Services$30,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Religion$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Diego FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MDM FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ONE STORY AT A TIME.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841936944 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ONE STORY AT A TIME, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mdm Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mdm Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MDM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mdm Foundation?

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MDM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mdm Foundation?

More from the funding graph