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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 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, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$50,000
BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION$50,000
PsychArmor$50,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PEND$25,000
Military Outreach Mission$25,000
SD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
RESOUNDING JOY INC$25,000
Angels of Americas Fallen$25,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
THE HONOR FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP CORRAL$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS$25,000
THE STEPS FOUNDATION$25,000
JACOBS & CUSHMAN SD FOOD BANK$25,000
San Diego Harbor Police FDN$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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: $35k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%Warrior Foundation-Freedom: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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

  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +107%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +39%
  • LO
    League of Wives Memorial Project
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
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 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
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
6
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
7
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
8
Special Forces Foundation

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

Philanthropy
9
San Diego Police Officers Association Inc

The san diego police officers association was incorporated in 1953 to assist san diego police officers in issues related to wages, hours and working conditions.

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10
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
11
The Wounded Blue

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

Health
12
The Commit Foundation

The commit foundation empowers those who have served and their families to create purposeful and fulfilling transitions by providing personalized programs, resources, and the support of community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Southern California Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR F…FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $70,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATIO…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE…Zero8Hundred Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesZero8Hund…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO…+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 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 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 budgetWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $70,000 over 3y, 1.8% 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 budgetBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTailhook Educational Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP CORRAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNHA SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $48,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS TRANSITION SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWAVE ACADEMY: $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING ON MERIT: $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE STEPS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeague of Wives Memorial Project: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetZero8Hundred Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetResounding Joy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS IN BUSINESS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…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

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 Midway Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midway Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    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 57 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 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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