California · Nonprofit
MISSION GRADUATES
MISSION GRADUATES (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000,296 to it, the largest being Caerus Foundation Inc ($3,696,466). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Mission Graduates does
Mission
Mission Graduates (the organization") is a california nonprofit benefit organization that empowers youth and their families on the path to higher education, equipping them for fulfilling careers that will strengthen generations. Founded in 1972, initially called st. John's educational threshold center, Mission Graduates was founded by a st. John's episcopal church member as a tutoring program for neighborhood children who experience an academic achievement gap. Three decades later, the organization clarified their commitment to getting more youth into college as a means to achieve economic equity for primarily latino and immigrant families but committed to meeting the needs of communities that have been overlooked by the system, especially black, filipino, and arab families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Beacon centers: almost 30 years ago, the organization partnered with the san francisco beacon initiative and city and county funders to develop an innovative programming model that meets more than just the academic or social needs of youth at everett middle school, it also creates a space for youth to develop into leaders in their community. Beacon centers have been expanded to 27 sites in san francisco, including the organization's sites at bessie carmichael, bryant, flynn, and sanchez elementary school, as well as the existing everett beacon. Overlaying the programming of the extended day programs, the beacon centers implement a community school model approach by providing a comprehensive hub of services during the school day and after school. The beacon centers served 895 youth during the year ended june 30, 2025, and expanded the learning day beyond the school day, providing individualized academic interventions but also an environment where future leaders can take ownership of their education, develop skills necessary to be successful, and begin working on their goals of graduation and higher education.
$4,308,141 spent$274,800 earned by the program42% of program spendingExtended day program (edp):the edp provides afterschool and summer education to alvarado, cleaveland, and marshall elementary schools and the thomas edison charter academy, and helps 875 students develop their english language skills and increase literacy levels, as well as shore up academic skills for students who are below grade in specific academic competencies. The edp extends the learning day to ensure students can transition to middle school with the english language, literacy, and academic skills necessary to excel. The program consists of five core components: academic enrichment and guided reading interventions; project-based electives that incorporate literacy-building opportunities throughout each cycle; sports and recreation; community-building activities that foster group cohesion, build social skills, and model resiliency; and an early college awareness curriculum that prepares and motivates children to plan for college. The organization just completed its third year at june jordan school for equity reaching 89 students. The program reaches the entire student body to provide opportunities for positive youth development, support students' academic competencies and…
$3,295,201 spent$863,935 earned by the program32% of program spendingCollege to career: college connect (cc): cc is a family-based college access and success program that launched in spring 2008. Cc annually recruits 25 four-year college-bound high school juniors living or attending school in the mission and excelsior districts of san francisco who are the first generation to attend college. Cc participants and their families receive support with act preparation, math and english tutoring, personal statements and scholarship application coaching, obtaining financial assistance, choosing the best college that meets their personal and academic needs, and successfully transitioning to college with support through graduation. Currently, cc has 382 participants across 17 cohorts; 252 are alumni, 80 are college students, and 50 are high school juniors and seniors. 96% of cc seniors from the class of 2025 are attending a 4-year college this fall, which is nearly three times the california state average (29%). 95% of cc students persisted into their sophomore year of college in the fall of 2024. 58% of students in the program graduate within six years of college entry, twice the rate of first-generation college students of 24%. They have successfully…
$2,113,818 spentof which $385,004 as grants20% of program spendingParent partner program:the parent partner program increases latino and immigrant youth's academic success and college prospects by nurturing a strong culture of parent engagement to 818 parents across 14 school sites. This program complements the oranization's other core programs, ensuring that parents understand the educational system, how they can be partners in supporting their children's academic growth and college dreams, and how to advocate best for their children's needs. The parent partner program provides parents with technology mentorship, english as a second language courses, english learner advisory committee coaching and advocacy preparation, parent success workshops, general family engagement consulting support, and school-wide meeting and planning preparation.
$623,559 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,340,719.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $4.6M (+155%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 55% · 2019 56% · 2020 57% · 2021 54% · 2022 72% · 2023 76% · 2024 75% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Edward Kaufman
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $835k → $1.7M.
16 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MISSION GRADUATES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
MISSION GRADUATES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
32% 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 MISSION GRADUATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 49% · 2020 27% · 2021 57% · 2022 42% · 2023 39% — 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
45% of MISSION GRADUATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
63% of MISSION GRADUATES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like MISSION GRADUATES
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSION GRADUATES?
- MISSION GRADUATES (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000,296 to it, the largest being Caerus Foundation Inc ($3,696,466). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION GRADUATES have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $13,000,296 in grants to MISSION GRADUATES, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION GRADUATES?
- Caerus Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,696,466 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION GRADUATES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing