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· Public charity
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity
With dignity and respect, MEND's mission is to meet the immediate needs of individuals and families and increase their access to opportunities that strengthen their capacity to thrive.
$6.5M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
engageempoweriglesiaenvironmentchildrenpoorrisk
2022
childrisk
2023
childriskpoorcareeducation
2024
education
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
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.
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Median grant
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States reached
$12M
Total assets
02The need
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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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Via Care Community Health Center
Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.
Health
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Interfaith Food Center
Providing food for the hungry.
Education
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La Raza Community Resource Center
To serve as a bridge between san francisco and spanish speaking immigrant families with direct support and advocacy to ensure latino and indigenous immigrant communities can access resources, realize their power, and thrive.
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Torrance-Lomita Meals On Wheels Inc
Provides home delivered meals to the house-bound communities of Torrance and Lomita. In 2023 we delivered 24,779 meals.
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Churches
Build community leaders through social-religious actvities.
Religion
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West Hollywood Community Housing Corp
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Housing & Shelter
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Valley Care Community Consortium Inc
Create healthier communities in vulnerable populations in los angeles.
Human Services
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Central California Family Crisis Center
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
Human Services
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South Central Los Angeles Regional
Provides intake, assessment diagnosis, and lifelong services coordination.
Human Services
10
La Cocina
Affordable commercial kitchen space and hands-on technical assistance for low-income and immigrant entrepeneurs.
Community Improvement
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Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
To minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our Community through the provision of assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, clothing, health care and…
Housing & Shelter
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Food Forward Inc
Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resource Center Inc 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
13%
6,640/49,775
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.
Food Forward IncCA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Food Forward Inc · Los Angeles Regional Food Bank · Shelter Partnership Inc · United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sempra Foundation · Food Finders Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Children's Hunger Fund
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity?
Find your warmest path to MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines