Mission Edge San Diego
San Diego, CA · EIN 27-2938491. Reported 96 grants totalling $5,841,744 to 70 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mission Edge San Diego, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P02) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 70 distinct organizations, with 34% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,400; the smallest was $5,041 and the largest $2,000,974. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-City Can | San Diego, CA | $2,000,974 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hustle 20 Pbc | Greenwood Village, CO | $324,835 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Health Prevention Intervention Education & Research | Greenville, MS | $258,315 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Deviant LLC | New York, NY | $239,805 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Catalyst Kitchens | Seattle, WA | $181,034 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hustle 20 Pbc | Greenwood Village, CO | $172,266 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fushion Cyber Inc | Washington, DC | $162,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| B Holding Group Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $152,562 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tufts Medical Center | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pie for Providers Ltd | Chicago, IL | $121,304 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Made in South La LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $113,405 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Life After Release | Clinton, MD | $112,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make Projects | San Diego, CA | $110,055 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Primer | San Francisco, CA | $106,749 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kind Health Group | Encinitas, CA | $93,210 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | San Diego, CA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding San Diego | San Diego, CA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Monarch School Project | San Diego, CA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Step Beyond | Escondido, CA | $85,556 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Save the Music Foundation | New York, NY | $79,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dyson Studio LLC | San Diego, CA | $76,717 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Just One Wave Inc | Encinitas, CA | $72,329 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Jolla Community Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $70,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meaning Foundation | Park City, UT | $57,063 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Driving Academy Inc | Linden, NJ | $50,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Includ(ed) | La Mesa, CA | $50,176 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Deviant Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $48,942 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fresh Glass Productions LLC | San Diego, CA | $46,940 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | New York, NY | $40,736 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Experience Nature Unplugged | Encinitas, CA | $40,575 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Learn Academy | Chula Vista, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rady Childrens Hospital Foundation San Diego | San Diego, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The San Diego Foundation | San Diego, CA | $26,088 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Meru Health Inc | San Mateo, CA | $25,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Imagine Creative Services LLC | San Diego, CA | $23,630 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freetoo Rising LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $23,340 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nlc - California | Orville, CA | $23,284 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bliss Care Foundation Inc | El Cajon, CA | $22,881 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elemeno Health Inc | Oakland, CA | $20,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Imagine Creative Services LLC | San Diego, CA | $18,871 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trash Prophets LLC | Toluca Lake, CA | $18,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South La Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $17,575 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Authentic Recovery Inc | Denver, CO | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| IQ4 Corporation | Woodcliff Lake, NJ | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc | New York, NY | $16,078 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Trevor Project Inc | W Hollywood, CA | $13,023 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Keeling Curve Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,148 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charbon Plus | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diversity By Design LLC | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haul'n Off LLC | La Mesa, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Homecraft | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute for Public Health Innovation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ls Beauty | Santee, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meraki Allure LLC | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neet Sheets | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Riggins Urban Barber College | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Write Juice | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Product Managers | San Francisco, CA | $9,182 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family House Inc | San Francisco, CA | $9,152 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Our World Too | Del Mar, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nova Ukraine | Palo Alto, CA | $8,245 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Revived Soldiers Ukraine | Orlando, FL | $8,245 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dreams for Change Inc | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La CASA De Las Madres | San Francisco, CA | $7,818 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Womens East African Support Team | San Diego, CA | $7,689 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorstack | Freeport, NY | $7,474 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Enneagram Prison Project | Los Gatos, CA | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mission Edge San Diego | San Diego, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rancho Santa Fe Foundation | Rcho Santa Fe, CA | $5,940 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
12 of 70 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 70 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $396,768 | $15,278 |
| 2022 | 27 | $552,262 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $3,152,940 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,739,774 | $41,027 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
61% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mission Edge San Diego's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2820 Roosevelt Road Suite 104 104, San Diego, CA, 92106.
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