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Mission Economic Development Agency

Rooted in san francisco's mission district, meda is advancing a national equity movement by building latino prosperity, community ownership and civic power.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$425k
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$2.7MHealth$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MYouth Development$1.2MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$919kRecreation & Sports$748kInternational$425kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 37 grants below total $3,464,183 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,787,498 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $323,315 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $631k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$239M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RTI INTERNATIONAL$425,134
PROMOTORAS ACTIVAS SF$357,004
HOMIES ORGANIZING THE MISSION TO EMPOWER YOUTH HOMEY$313,054
GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$236,805
MISSION GRADUATES$236,000
THE URBAN INSTITUTE$217,976
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER$190,300
FELTON INSTITUTE$154,303
MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER$135,750
INSTITUTO FAMILIAR DE LA RAZA INC$115,000
WU YEE CHILDRENS SERVICES$90,285
MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC$87,750
AMPAC TRI-STATE CDC INC$60,000
LA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL INC$56,000
WATERSHED NURSERY$55,178
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SBCS CORP: $45k → 11%BALANCE: $24k → 9%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $59k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDRENS WITH DISABILITIES: $53k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $52k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDRENS WITH DISABILITIES: $44k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $37k → 10%BIRTH COMPANIONS COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $31k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $27k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $20k → 10%URBAN SERVICES YMCA: $31k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $127k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $122k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $107k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $88k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $60k → 10%AFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $20k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $27k → 10%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 36% of Mission Economic Development Agency’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Mission Economic Development Agencylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 33 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
45

Total granted

$8.9M
$820k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+76%

Still filing today

97%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MG
    MISSION GRADUATES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +337%
  • IF
    INSTITUTO FAMILIAR DE LA RAZA
    5× · 2017–2024 · $996k · revenue +24%
  • GS
    Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco
    6× · 2017–2024 · $876k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2017 · $87k
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +341%

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education
3
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
5
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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6
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
7
Main Street Launch

Our mission is to create economic opportunity by empowering entrepreneurs.Through innovative partnerships we provide business owners with capital, education, and relationships that allow them to flourish. Our collaborative approach helps…

Community Improvement
8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
10
Homeownership San Francisco dba Home Sf

The Organization is a citywide collaborative of housing counseling agencies that helps diverse and underserved households achieve and sustain homeownership in San Francisco.

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11
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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12
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Vision Capital & Consulting and the most unlike its peers is Asociacion Mayab. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr12%43%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/78
the rest of the field
14%
4,745/34,333

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.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 90 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
44/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSION GRADUATES — $1,152,500 · OtherMISSION GRADUATESINSTITUTO FAMILIAR DE LA RAZA — $995,500 · OtherINSTITUTO FAMILIAR DE LA RAZAGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $876,433 · OtherGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San FranciscoSFUSD — $777,607 · OtherSFUSDFelton Institute — $612,848 · OtherFelton InstitutePROMOTORAS ACTIVAS SF — $357,004 · OtherLA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $321,000 · OtherLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO — $250,799 · Other+51 more — $1,714,290 · Other+51 moreMission Neighborhood Centers Inc — $503,400 · Human ServicesMission Nei…Support for Families of Children with Disabilities — $246,155 · Human ServicesSupport for…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $135,715 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…Children's Council of San Francisco — $90,000 · Human ServicesChildren's …SBCS CORPORATION — $45,000 · Human Services+5 more — $113,625 · Human Services+5 moreLA COCINA — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $146,667 · Community ImprovementAmpac Tri-State CDC Inc — $105,000 · Community ImprovementARCATA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $95,000 · Community ImprovementCDC SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE CORPORATION — $70,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $70,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR MICROENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITY — $70,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS — $50,000 · Community ImprovementINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY — $45,000 · Community ImprovementSelf-Help Ventures Fund — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $17,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $461,317 · HealthHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY — $313,054 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $59,000 · Health+1 more — $25,000 · HealthJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $747,801 · Recreation & SportsResearch Triangle Institute — $425,134 · Science & TechTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $174,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $95,000 · Education
Other$7,057,981Human Services$1,133,895Community Improvement$883,667Health$858,371Recreation & Sports$747,801Science & Tech$425,134Education$269,500

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 budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $1,152,500 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetINSTITUTO FAMILIAR DE LA RAZA — $995,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $876,433 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $747,801 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetFelton Institute — $612,848 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMission Neighborhood Centers Inc — $503,400 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $461,317 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute — $425,134 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $321,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY — $313,054 over 1y, 11% of budgetLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO — $250,799 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities — $246,155 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $217,976 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $174,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM — $155,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLA COCINA — $150,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $146,667 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $135,715 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmpac Tri-State CDC Inc — $105,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $95,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARCATA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $95,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEL PAJARO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $95,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $90,285 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFaith In Action Bay Area — $90,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetChildren's Council of San Francisco — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParents for Public Schools of San Francisco — $87,900 over 4y, 19% of budgetCDC SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE CORPORATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR MICROENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITY — $70,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $59,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Transitions — $35,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSelf-Help Ventures Fund — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $34,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVENTURES — $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…Crankstart FoundationLatino Community Foun…Wells Fargo FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Mimi and Peter Haas F…The Morris Stulsaft F…East Bay Community Fo…
The San Francisco FoundationCA54.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · East Bay Community 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mission Economic Development Agency 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 90 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.

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