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ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION

ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,621 to it, the largest being MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$99k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$111k
Net assets
$301k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Rob Machado Foundation does

Mission

To educate and empower young people to make sustainable choices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Clean water and reducing single -use plastic - the Rob Machado Foundation (rmf) provides temporary water-filing stations to major music and sporting events helping to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles. In 2023 rmf provided refill stations at 6 local area events (camp shred, beachlife festival, bro-am, x games, ohana festival and the city of encinitas oktoberfest) aiding in diverting over 35,996k plastic bottles from landfills.

    $50,044 spent
    40% of program spending
  2. Trash and recycling: rmf provides trash and recycling solutions at local area beaches and events to protect waterways. Rmf hosts monthly san diego area beach clean ups that activate hundreds of volunteers (young adults and families) annually to remove plastic from our beach and waterways. In 2023 our monthly beach cleanups resulted in the removal of 385lbs of plastic waste and additional 100lbs from our role as site captain for I love a clean san diego's creek to bay annual clean up.

    $30,817 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Reusable water bottle distribution: rmf donated 15,000 reusable water bottles to local school districts. The bottle distribution was supported with multiple bck and I love a clean san diego's eco literacy lessons with programs that emphasize the importance of keeping our rivers and oceans clean, including water watch (focused on little kids and litter in storm drain, plastic never goes aways)and swppp (storm water pollution prevention program- all schools must do this program - geared towards middle schools and students tell what they are doing regarding litter and other types of pollutants such as fertilizer, phosphates.

    $44,525 spent
    36% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,386.

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 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($234k)2018 Revenue 136 ($155k) Expenses 76 ($103k) Net assets 122 ($286k)2019 Revenue 105 ($121k) Expenses 90 ($121k) Net assets 122 ($285k)2020 Revenue 39 ($44k) Expenses 65 ($88k) Net assets 103 ($241k)2021 Revenue 232 ($265k) Expenses 123 ($167k) Net assets 146 ($340k)2022 Revenue 212 ($242k) Expenses 140 ($190k) Net assets 168 ($392k)2023 Revenue 116 ($133k) Expenses 130 ($177k) Net assets 149 ($348k)2024 Revenue 87 ($99k) Expenses 129 ($175k) Net assets 129 ($301k)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (129)Net assets (129)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 2020 to 2021, from $242k to $350k (+45%).

$235k
$286k
$286k
$242k
$350k
$421k
$349k
$312k
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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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

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’20
$99k
’21
$52k
’22
−$44k
’23
−$76k
’24
18
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

Justine Chiara

Executive director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

201720182019202020212022
Listed377776
Joined·+4+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $9k.

1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION’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

ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION.

45%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 60% · 2019 64% · 2020 99% · 2021 95% · 2022 83% — 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

20% of ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2022, 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

72% of ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
CO
AZ

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−76% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

86%

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 ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION?
ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,621 to it, the largest being MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $110,621 in grants to ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION?
MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION 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 9 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