· Public charity
Mission Edge San Diego
A nonprofit social enterprise 501(c)(3) that provides strategic and operational tools for nonprofits to greater impact the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $1,739,774 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,934,556 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $194,782 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–50k15 grants · $440k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $975k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUSTLE 20 PBC | $324,835 |
| CATALYST KITCHENS | $181,034 |
| FUSHION CYBER INC | $162,000 |
| MADE IN SOUTH LA LLC | $113,405 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH - PIER | $94,052 |
| KIND HEALTH GROUP | $93,210 |
| DYSON STUDIO LLC | $76,717 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| JUST ONE WAVE INC | $72,329 |
| THE MEANING FOUNDATION | $57,063 |
| DRIVING ACADEMY INC | $50,400 |
| DEVIANT SOCIETY | $48,942 |
| B HOLDING GROUP FOUNDATION INC | $47,055 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $35,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Mission Edge San Diego’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, 73% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ZIZero8Hundred Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $757k · revenue +569% · 57% of their budget
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +61%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- MCMID-CITY CANone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- SFSUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $312k · revenue -92% · 50% of their budget
- H2HUSTLE 20 PBCone grant, 2023 · $172k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 14 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 106 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Zero8Hundred Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PREVENTION INTERVENTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST KITCHENS ↗
- Who funds A Step Beyond ↗
- Who funds B HOLDING GROUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD ↗
- Who funds LIFE AFTER RELEASE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RISE Urban Leadership Institute of San Diego ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds Center for Community Self-Help ↗
- Who funds Meaning Foundation ↗
- Who funds IncludEd ↗
- Who funds ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE NATURE UNPLUGGED ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The California Endowment · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley 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 Edge San Diego 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.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
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.