Midway Foundation Inc
San Diego, CA · EIN 51-0571147. Reported 81 grants totalling $2,281,000 to 44 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 Midway Foundation Inc, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in education -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE B11).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $125,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Star Families Inc | Encinitas, CA | $185,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Support the Enlisted Project Inc | San Diego, CA | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Interfaith Community Services Inc | Escondido, CA | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| San Diego Harbor Police Foundation | San Diego, CA | $127,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Feeding San Diego | San Diego, CA | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fisher House Southern California Inc | Long Beach, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Through Reading | San Diego, CA | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Armed Services YMCA Camp Pend | Camp Pendelton, CA | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Women Warriors | Vista, CA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | San Diego, CA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Psycharmor Institute Inc | Carlsbad, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Diego District Attorney Investigators Association | San Diego, CA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County Inc | San Diego, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| San Diego Sdmom | La Mesa, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Angels of Americas Fallen | Colorado Spgs, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Angels Foundation Inc | Pensacola, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Corral | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | Franklin, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight San Diego | Coronado, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Diego Police Foundation | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vietnam Veterans of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make-a Wish Foundation of San Diego Inc | San Diego, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mcrd Museum Historical Society | San Diego, CA | $41,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| USO Council of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Warrior Foundation Freedom Station | San Diego, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wave Academy | San Diego, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| N H a Scholarship Fund | Coronado, CA | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Honor Foundation | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| League of Wives Memorial Project | Coronado, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Military Outreach Mission - San Diego | La Mesa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Veterans Transition Services Inc | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resounding Joy Inc | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Steps Foundation | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| ZERO8HUNDRED Inc | San Diego, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tailhook Educational Foundation Inc | San Diego, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Armed Services YMCA of the USA | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mission Edge San Diego | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Homefront Inc | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Putnam Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Semper Fi & Americas Fund | Quantico, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Veterans in Business Network | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wreaths Across America | Columbia Fls, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
22 of 44 (50%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Support the Enlisted Project
Emergency Assistance / Social Worke - Blue Angels Foundation
2023 BAF Continuum of Care - San Diego Police Foundation
Officer Wellness Prog & K9 Soiree - Psycharmor
Suicide Prevention Training - Gary Sinise Foundation
General Operating - SD Area/Chapter - Interfaith Community Services
Veteran Housing Stability Case Mana
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 44 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 | 12 | $305,000 | $17,500 |
| 2022 | 17 | $634,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 29 | $727,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $615,000 | $25,000 |
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
90% 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 $25,000 -- 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 Midway Foundation Inc'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 910 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA, 92101.
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