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Mission Edge San Diego

A nonprofit social enterprise 501(c)(3) that provides strategic and operational tools for nonprofits to greater impact the community.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.4MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$997kEmployment$372kScience & Tech$348kArts & Culture$338kFood & Nutrition$245kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $1,739,774, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,934,556 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $194,782 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $440k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $975k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$47,055
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$35,000
MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT$35,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DEVIANT SOCIETY: $49k → 28%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $10k → 14%THE MEANING FOUNDATION: $57k → 14%ZERO8HUNDRED: $398k → 11%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $16k → 11%ZERO8HUNDRED: $359k → 11%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $40k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNITED WOMEN OF EAST AFRICA SUPPORT TEAM (UWEAST): $8k → 11%DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $8k → 11%BLISS CARE FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 11%SCIENTELLA: $6k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Mission Edge San Diego’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Mission Edge San Diegolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 18 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
69

Total granted

$2.7M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+40%

Still filing today

78%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEmploymentEnvironmentOther
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

  • ZI
    Zero8Hundred Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $757k · revenue +569% · 57% of their budget
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +61%
  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • SF
    SUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $312k · revenue -92% · 50% of their budget
  • H2
    HUSTLE 20 PBC
    one grant, 2023 · $172k
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
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
2
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
3
Institute for Public Strategies

Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…

Health
4
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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5
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
6
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
7
Community Health Improvement Partners

The mission of community health improvement partners is to advance sustainable solutions to priority health needs through collaboration and community engagement.

Health
8
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…

Social Science
9
Regional Task Force On the Homeless

RTFH exists to reduce and end homelessness in San Diego, ensuring that if this situation does happen for anyone, it remains a rare, brief and non-recurring instance; not an outcome.

Human Services
10
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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11
San Diego Squared

To advance workforce and talent development within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") sectors by fostering excellence in education, expanding access to opportunities, and delivering transformative resources to…

Education
12
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Community Health Prevention Intervention Education & Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 106 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
37/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,000,974 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUSTLE 20: $324,835 · OtherHUSTLE 20COMMUNITY HEALTH PREVENTION INTERVENTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH: $258,315 · OtherDEVIANT LLC: $239,805 · Other+66 more: $2,501,278 · Other+66 moreZero8Hundred Inc: $757,014 · Human ServicesZero8Hundred IncCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $220,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLE…Meaning Foundation: $57,063 · Human ServicesDEVIANT SOCIETY INC: $48,942 · Human ServicesPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $40,000 · Human Services+7 more: $73,143 · Human Services+7 moreSUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $311,772 · HealthB HOLDING GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $152,562 · HealthEXPERIENCE NATURE UNPLUGGED: $40,575 · Health+3 more: $30,592 · HealthCATALYST KITCHENS: $181,034 · PhilanthropyROB MACHADO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $37,094 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $30,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,049 · Philanthropy+2 more: $13,440 · PhilanthropyLIFE AFTER RELEASE INC: $112,500 · Community ImprovementRISE Urban Leadership Institute of San Diego: $99,323 · Community ImprovementLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70,500 · Community ImprovementSouth La Community Foundation: $17,575 · Community Improvement+2 more: $17,474 · Community ImprovementFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $240,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMAKE PROJECTS: $110,055 · EmploymentCenter for Community Self-Help: $63,000 · Employment+1 more: $5,000 · Employment
Other$5,325,207Human Services$1,196,162Health$535,501Philanthropy$324,617Community Improvement$317,372Food & Nutrition$245,000Employment$178,055

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZero8Hundred Inc: $757,014 over 2y, 57% of budgetSUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $311,772 over 1y, 50% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PREVENTION INTERVENTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH: $258,315 over 4y, 21% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $240,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCATALYST KITCHENS: $181,034 over 1y, 34% of budgetA Step Beyond: $155,556 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetB HOLDING GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $152,562 over 2y, 52% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $141,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD: $121,304 over 1y, 68% of budgetLIFE AFTER RELEASE INC: $112,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetMAKE PROJECTS: $110,055 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $105,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRISE Urban Leadership Institute of San Diego: $99,323 over 1y, 12% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCenter for Community Self-Help: $63,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMeaning Foundation: $57,063 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetIncludEd: $50,176 over 1y, 66% of budgetROB MACHADO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $40,736 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXPERIENCE NATURE UNPLUGGED: $40,575 over 2y, 20% of budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $37,094 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOME START INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLISS CARE FOUNDATION INC: $22,881 over 1y, 59% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $19,602 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $18,359 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth La Community Foundation: $17,575 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $16,078 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,049 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $13,023 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRID ALTERNATIVES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEELING CURVE FOUNDATION: $10,148 over 1y, 13% of budgetCITY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLABORS TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK PRODUCT MANAGERS: $9,182 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $9,152 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRevived Soldiers Ukraine: $8,245 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $8,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $7,818 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Women of East Africa Support Team: $7,689 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMA HUMANITARIAN FUND: $7,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO VETERANS COALITION: $7,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOLORSTACK INC: $7,474 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 DEVIANT SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPERIENCE NATURE UNPLUGGED ↗
  • Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗

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…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The California Endowm…Alliance Healthcare F…The Parker FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…The Nordson Corporati…Catalyst of San Diego…The Cushman FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…
The San Diego FoundationCA40.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mission Edge San Diego funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mission Edge San Diego. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report 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
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 106 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home