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Midway Foundation Inc

To support education programs, organizations and initiatives that support Americas core values of service and sacrifice in the name of freedom.

$625k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Human Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$400kPublic Safety & Disaster$357kPublic Benefit$317kFood & Nutrition$265kHealth$213kYouth Development$180kPhilanthropy$158kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $465k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION$50,000
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$50,000
PsychArmor$50,000
ZERO8HUNDRED$25,000
NATL VETS TRANSITION SERVICES$25,000
CAMP CORRAL$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS$25,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PEND$25,000
Military Outreach Mission$25,000
THE STEPS FOUNDATION$25,000
SD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$25,000
RESOUNDING JOY INC$25,000
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK$25,000
Challenged Athletes Foundatio$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $326k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SD: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SD: $10k → 11%THE ROSIE NETWORK: $8k → 11%211 SAN DIEGO: $8k → 11%Warrior Foundation-Freedom: $35k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundatio: $25k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $25k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $25k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $20k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $25k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $25k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $20k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 37 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
13

Total granted

$3.4M
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • ST
    SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $365k · revenue +297%
  • BS
    BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $340k · revenue +570%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $252k · revenue +107% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +107%
  • MO
    MILITARY OUTREACH MISSION-SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

1
San Diego Military Advisory Council

The San Diego Military Council (SDMAC) is a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, whose mission is to support, promote, and represent the common business and other interests of the military, their quality of life issues, and the defense…

Community Improvement
2
San Diego Fleet Week Foundation

To honor and celebrate the men and women of the military through events that entertain and alliances that thank and support these heroes.

Recreation & Sports
3
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…

Education
4
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
5
Southern California Wheelchair Veterans Association

To aid and assist veterans of the armed forces in southern california who are disabled, paralyzed, confined in wheelchairs, terminally ill, hospitalized, or confined in nursing homes to a more qualified way of life through recreation,…

Human Services
6
Southern California Marine Corps Support

To support marines and their families, particulary those deployed overseas

Public Benefit
7
Soldiers' Angels

Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit
9
San Diego Workforce Partnership Inc

To provide regional employment and training services that include the development and creation of job opportunities, training, education, and other services needed to enable individuals to secure and retain employment.

Employment
10
The Wounded Blue

To improve the lives of injured and disabled law-enforcement officers through support, education, assistance and legislation

Health
11
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
12
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Southern California Inc and the most unlike its peers is League of Wives Memorial Project. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyBiomedical Research Organiz…San Diego Jewish Community …Christian International Min…Charter SchoolsLabor Union LocalsSan Diego Community Develop…Regional Business ChambersSenior Housing and Care Ser…Youth Development and Empow…Law Enforcement & Public Sa…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%6%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%38%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%15%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%9%5–10yr21%48%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
2,129/14,704

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.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $365,000 · Public BenefitSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INCBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $340,000 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FAMILIES INCUNITED THROUGH READING — $135,000 · Public BenefitUNITED THROUGH READINGVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO — $105,000 · Public BenefitVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETE…FISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 · Public BenefitFISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INCSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Public BenefitSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATIONPSYCHARMOR INSTITUTE INC — $70,000 · Public BenefitPSYCHARMOR INSTITUTE INCHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO — $50,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $52,000 · Public BenefitInterfaith Community Services Inc — $195,000 · OtherInterfaith Community Services IncARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $130,000 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USASAN DIEGO MILITARY OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $90,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO MILITARY OUTREACH MINISTRI…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO — $90,000 · OtherUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUN…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $85,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEG…ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $80,000 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USATailhook Educational Foundation Inc — $50,000 · OtherNHA SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $48,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $45,000 · OtherMCRD MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $58,000 · OtherNATIONAL VETERANS TRANSITION SERVICES INC — $45,000 · OtherCAMP CORRAL — $50,000 · Other+12 more — $257,000 · Other+12 moreSAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $252,000 · PhilanthropySAN DIEGO HA…BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE ANGELS …GARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE …League of Wives Memorial Project — $25,000 · PhilanthropyLeague of Wi…Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO — $80,000 · Human ServicesMISSION E…FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $70,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATIO…WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $70,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR F…Zero8Hundred Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesZero8Hund…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE…SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…+2 more — $15,500 · Human ServicesDISTRICT ATTORNEY INVESTIGATORS ASSOC OF SD — $125,000 · Crime & LegalSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Crime & LegalANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN — $50,000 · Crime & LegalFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $120,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $55,000 · Food & NutritionSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $115,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ON MERIT — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Public Benefit$1,297,000Other$1,223,000Philanthropy$404,500Human Services$325,500Crime & Legal$250,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Housing & Shelter$145,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $365,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $340,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HARBOR POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $252,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc — $195,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $135,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDISTRICT ATTORNEY INVESTIGATORS ASSOC OF SD — $125,000 over 7y, 63% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $115,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO — $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MILITARY OUTREACH MINISTRIES — $90,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO — $90,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO — $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetPSYCHARMOR INSTITUTE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $70,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION — $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMCRD MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $58,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTailhook Educational Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCAMP CORRAL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNHA SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $48,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS TRANSITION SERVICES INC — $45,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWAVE ACADEMY — $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHOUSING ON MERIT — $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeague of Wives Memorial Project — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetZero8Hundred Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResounding Joy Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE STEPS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWreaths Across America — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Foundat…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationJewish Community Foun…Sempra FoundationThe Parker FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…The Nordson Corporati…Walter J & Betty C Za…David W Hearst Jr Fou…Padres FoundationPratt Memorial Fund
The San Diego FoundationCA37× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David W Hearst Jr Foundation · Padres Foundation · Pratt Memorial 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Midway Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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