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Mdm Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$1.1MArts & Culture$285kHousing & Shelter$185kHealth$110kFood & Nutrition$105kHuman Services$70kYouth Development$50kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
  • $250k+1 grant · $525k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$525,000
LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION$150,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PACIFIC SOUTHWEST$125,000
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$100,000
SAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER$50,000
KPBS$25,000
ORQUESTA GUADALUPANA$24,979
NEW DAY URBAN MINISTRIES$10,000
FOREVER BALBOA PARK$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUNIOR SEAU FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 10 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +14%
  • LD
    LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $295k · revenue +35%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST
    2× · 2024–2025 · $155k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TF
    THISTLE FARMS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • TG
    THE GATHERING PLACE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

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6
San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

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7
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
8
San Diego Opera Association

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

Arts & Culture
9
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist ellen browning scripps, scripps health is a $4.8 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in san diego, ca. (see sch o)

Health
10
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
11
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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12
San Diego Children's Discovery Museum

San diego children's discovery museum sparks a love of learning so all children can discover their wildest dreams. our vision for the future is to be the leaders in inventive early childhood learning. our values: we aspire to serve all…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Thistle Farms Inc. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $1,575,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCALUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $295,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATIO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $155,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…ALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $20,000 · HealthCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthTHE OLD GLOBE: $75,000 · OtherTHE OLD GLO…THISTLE FARMS INC: $50,000 · OtherTHISTLE FAR…URBAN PEAK: $40,000 · OtherURBAN PEAKWORKIN WHISKERS INC: $38,980 · OtherWORKIN WHIS…THE GATHERING PLACE: $25,000 · OtherTHE GATHERI…KPBS: $25,000 · OtherKPBSNEW DAY URBAN MINISTRIES: $25,000 · OtherNEW DAY URB…ORQUESTA GUADALUPANA: $24,979 · OtherORQUESTA GU…One Story at a Time Inc: $105,283 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $100,000 · Food & NutritionSECOR: $15,000 · Food & NutritionNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO COASTKEEPER: $50,000 · EnvironmentSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesJUNIOR SEAU FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOREVER BALBOA PARK: $20,000 · Religion
Animals$1,575,000Health$530,000Other$303,959Food & Nutrition$220,283Arts & Culture$210,000Environment$50,000Human Services$30,000Religion$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $1,575,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $295,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC: $175,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $155,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOne Story at a Time Inc: $105,283 over 4y, 33% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOREVER BALBOA PARK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIND WHAT MATTERS FKA BLUE BAYOU COLLECTIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSECOR: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 San Diego Foundat…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Alliance Healthcare F…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Intuit FoundationCalifornia Community …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
The San Diego FoundationCA18.9× affinity7 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 · 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mdm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mdm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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