California · Nonprofit
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity (California) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,780,628 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($963,789). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity does
Mission
For more than half a century, MEND has been a lifeline for the most vulnerable families, individuals, and seniors, offering services rooted in dignity and respect. What began in a humble Valley garage has grown into a cornerstone of the San Fernando Valley community, supporting thousands with crisis services and long-term intensive case management.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The COMMUNITY NOURISHMENT PROGRAMS (CNP) are MEND's most extensive services, providing food-insecure people in over 202 Los Angeles zip codes with regular access to good nutrition. In 2024, CNP distributed 3.4 million lbs. of fresh groceries and pantry staples - with 665,000 lbs. going to 44 local food pantries. Collectively, these services allowed people in need to consume 2.8 million meals.
$7,070,689 spentof which $6,273,773 as grants$971,205 earned by the program76% of program spendingHERE WE THRIVE is an umbrella for several services, chief among them: Pathways to Wellness for participants with a diet-related chronic health disease, Living Wise + Well targeted to low-income, older adults, Gateways Employment Services offering work readiness & job placement, Enhanced Care Management for low-income patients on Medi-Cal, and finally, Connections, which provides resource navigation & referrals.HOPE & CARE support services offer resources, referrals, and system navigation for mental health services as well as supportive services, such as diapers, wipes, household items, utility assistance, and other necessities for families with children aged 0-5. Hope & Care also oversees our First Step services for the homeless and supports them with hygiene products, clean clothing, and curated food bags, along with referrals to additional services.
$2,293,358 spentof which $255,900 as grants24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,364,047.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $12M (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 12% · 2022 17% · 2023 20% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Janet Marinaccio
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Alex Hemmelgam
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $711k → $1.8M.
16 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 30% · 2019 21% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 9% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity's funding base is broadening — from 33 funders to 42 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity?
- MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity (California) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,780,628 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($963,789). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $8,780,628 in grants to MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $963,789 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 105 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing