California · Public charity
Mission Produce Foundation
The organization's purpose is to improve living standards within the community through education, training, nourishment and support.
- $82k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $59k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Mission Produce Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $59k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $73k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $55k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $91k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $164k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $214k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families | $262,500 | 6 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $49,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ventura County Fairgrounds Foundation | $29,144 | 2 | 6% |
| Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo Llc | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Border Olympics Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Jacks Helping Hand Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| California Agricultural Leadership Found | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families | $262,500 | 6 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $49,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ventura County Fairgrounds Foundation | $29,144 | 2 | 6% |
| Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo Llc | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Border Olympics Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Jacks Helping Hand Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| California Agricultural Leadership Found | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cal Poly Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| House Farm Workers | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Future Citizens Foundation Dba the First Tee of Monterey County | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Bonaventure High School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mission Produce Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Mission Produce Foundation
- How much does Mission Produce Foundation give?
- Mission Produce Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $59,000, out of $82,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mission Produce Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Mission Produce Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ($263k), American Heart Association Inc ($50k), Ventura County Fairgrounds Foundation ($29k).
- Does Mission Produce Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mission Produce Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Mission Produce Foundation based?
- Mission Produce Foundation is based in CA.
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