· Private foundation
The Mdbsd Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONCO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| CAPTIVATE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| ROCK POINT CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $20,000 |
| BOYS TO MEN MENTORING | $15,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| MIRACLE EAR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +145%
- CSCURA SMILES INC3× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +429%
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- NCNEWBREAK CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $50k
- NHNEW HOPE OAHUone grant, 2020 · $24k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
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.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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.
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…
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Equipping mission, ministry, and philanthropic organizations (of similar vision) with the organizational and relational perspective needed to accelerate and enhance their collective impact. mission mutual exists to provide centralized…
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
Connectree's vision is to help missionaries have the care and support they need, financially, physically, emotionally and spiritually, to carry out the ministry that god has called them to do. our 5 distinctives are: missionary care,…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Bronco Athletic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CURA SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ASELTINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPING HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE-EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mdbsd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mdbsd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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