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California · Public charity

MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity

For more than half a century, MEND has been a lifeline for the most vulnerable families, individuals, and seniors, offering services rooted in dignity and respect. What began in a humble Valley garage has grown into a cornerstone of the San Fernando Valley community, supporting thousands with crisis services and long-term intensive case…

$6.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
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Total assets, FY2024
$12M

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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.

Food Forward IncUnited Way IncLos Angeles Regional …California Community …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Food Forward IncCA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Food Forward Inc · United Way Inc · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · California Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity

How much does MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity give?
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity reported $6,529,673 in grants in its FY2024 IRS filing. Individual grant detail isn't itemized in the e-filed return we have. It is referenced on an attached schedule, or the latest filing isn't in our corpus yet.
Which funders back the same organizations as MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Food Forward Inc, United Way Inc, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank.
Where is MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity based?
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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