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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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $6,529,673.
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.
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Our Vision is to enhance the educational and economic well-being of the people we serve by means of direct human services, advocacy, and referrals.Our Mission is to save lives, unite families, and protect the community through addiction…
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Provide residential recovery housing to those who are in recovery from drug and alcohol use and, in many cases, homeless
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
To lift people of out homelessness, one person, one family at a time.
Mentorship and housing assistant for women returning from incarceration
La Familia Counseling Service is an inclusive Latino community-based, multi-cultural organization committed to strengthening the emotional wellness of individuals and the preservation of families.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…
For the performance of charitable acts and service to the less fortunate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Aaron Community Cultural Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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.
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
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.