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MISSION SANTA MARIA

MISSION SANTA MARIA (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,757 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($113,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$899k
Revenue FY2025
23
Funders on record
$796k
Grants received
$744k
Net assets
12/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

MISSION SANTA MARIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($162k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2018 Revenue 132 ($177k) Expenses 91 ($147k) Net assets 213 ($58k)2019 Revenue 214 ($287k) Expenses 133 ($215k) Net assets 479 ($130k)2020 Revenue 502 ($675k) Expenses 315 ($509k) Net assets 1095 ($296k)2021 Revenue 306 ($412k) Expenses 181 ($293k) Net assets 1534 ($415k)2022 Revenue 353 ($475k) Expenses 269 ($435k) Net assets 1538 ($416k)2023 Revenue 449 ($604k) Expenses 381 ($617k) Net assets 1491 ($403k)2024 Revenue 515 ($693k) Expenses 420 ($679k) Net assets 1545 ($418k)2025 Revenue 668 ($899k) Expenses 405 ($655k) Net assets 2750 ($744k)
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Revenue (668)Expenses (405)Net assets (2750)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MISSION SANTA MARIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
17
$31k
18
$72k
19
$167k
20
$119k
21
$40k
22
$13k
23
$15k
24
$245k
25
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $35k → $78k.

10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 SANTA MARIA’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 SANTA MARIA 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

60% 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 SANTA MARIA.

14%
largest funder
41%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 98% · 2019 62% · 2020 30% · 2021 32% · 2022 39% · 2023 32%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

56% of MISSION SANTA MARIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

51% of MISSION SANTA MARIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $391k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 9 states.

MN
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
DE
NC
FL

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

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21
22
23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $404k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like MISSION SANTA MARIA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSION SANTA MARIA: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MISSION SANTA MARIA?
MISSION SANTA MARIA (New Jersey) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,757 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($113,600). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MISSION SANTA MARIA have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $795,757 in grants to MISSION SANTA MARIA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSION SANTA MARIA?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $113,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSION SANTA MARIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing