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Mission Plasticos

Mission Plasticos (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,207 to it, the largest being THE ALLERGAN FOUNDATION ($100,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$704k
Net assets
$2.2M
11/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Mission Plasticos does

Mission

Provide free reconstructive surgery to those in need primarily children train local doctors and nurses where needed create opportunities for medical volunteers educate public abount need and prevention.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. United States - In 2024, Mission Plasticos also provided reconstructive surgical care across the United States through the Reshaping Lives Full Circle program, offering no-cost breast reconstruction for uninsured and underinsured post-mastectomy women. Eighty-nine procedures were completed, including breast and nipple-areolar reconstruction and tattooing. One procedure was conducted under the Reshaping Lives America initiative to address a congenital abnormality.

    $617,136 spent$605,504 earned by the program
    30% of program spending
  2. Cabo San Lucas Mexico - From June 24-28 2024 volunteers traveled to Cabo San Lucas Mexico to perform reconstructive surgical procedures for underserved patients. Twenty-six patients received care, with fifty-three procedures completed. Twenty-three percent of procedures were performed on children and seventy-seven percent on adults, including breast, scar and extremity reconstructions. Training local medical staff remained a key component of the mission.

    $55,721 spent$38,290 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  3. Cordoba, Argentina - From October 6-10, volunteers traveled to Cordoba Argentina to provide reconstructive surgical care and training for underserved women. Fifteen patients received treatment. More than three hundred medical professionals participated via a live interactive feed at Nuevo Hospital San Roque, advancing breast reconstructive surgery education and care.

    $46,175 spent$82,207 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  4. Program Service Expenses 79,117, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 60,448 Nakuru Kenya - From October 10-20 2024 Mission Plasticos medical volunteers traveled to Nakuru Kenya to perform reconstructive surgery for underserved patients. A total of fifty-three patients received care with sixty-one procedures completed. Ninety-eight percent of procedures were performed on children and eighty percent addressed severe burn contractures. Training local medical staff remained a key component of the mission. Program Service Expenses 1,235,762, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Other miscellaneous services pertaining to the organizations mission of providing free reconstructive surgery and educating the public about need and prevention.

    $1,314,879 spent$60,448 earned by the program
    65% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,033,911.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($462k) Expenses 100 ($314k) Net assets 100 ($887k)2018 Revenue 236 ($1.1M) Expenses 190 ($597k) Net assets 150 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 305 ($1.4M) Expenses 249 ($782k) Net assets 233 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 122 ($563k) Expenses 149 ($470k) Net assets 236 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 206 ($951k) Expenses 217 ($681k) Net assets 277 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 290 ($1.3M) Expenses 479 ($1.5M) Net assets 250 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 242 ($1.1M) Expenses 382 ($1.2M) Net assets 246 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 332 ($1.5M) Expenses 505 ($1.6M) Net assets 244 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (332)Expenses (505)Net assets (244)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $2.1M (+55%).

$894k
$1.3M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of Mission Plasticos’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’17
$492k
’18
$625k
’19
$94k
’20
$270k
’21
−$165k
’22
−$83k
’23
−$54k
’24
0.3
months of
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

Susan Williamson

Executive Director

Board chair

Anne Andrews Esq

Board Chair, Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed109999111010
Joined·+1+4+1+2+4+0+2
No longer listed·2412212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $19k → $109k.

11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Plasticos’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Plasticos has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

58% 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 Plasticos.

14%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 64% · 2020 59% · 2021 37% · 2022 33% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.

“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

38% of Mission Plasticos's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Mission Plasticos draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.

IL
NV
NJ
CA
DE
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mission Plasticos has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mission Plasticos?
Mission Plasticos (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $704,207 to it, the largest being THE ALLERGAN FOUNDATION ($100,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mission Plasticos have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $704,207 in grants to Mission Plasticos, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mission Plasticos?
THE ALLERGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mission Plasticos 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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