Mission Economic Development Agency
San Francisco, CA · EIN 51-0187791. Reported 56 grants totalling $4,253,378 to 46 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $35,000. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $87,750; the smallest was $7,066 and the largest $425,134. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $10,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Triangle Institute | Durham, NC | $425,134 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $367,767 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Promotoras Activas Sf | San Francisco, CA | $357,004 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth Homey | San Francisco, CA | $313,054 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Graduates | San Francisco, CA | $236,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Institute | Washington, DC | $217,976 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jamestown Community Center Inc | San Francisco, CA | $190,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Felton Institute | Alameda, CA | $154,303 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Housing Development Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mission Area Health Associates Dba Mission Neighborhood Health Center | San Francisco, CA | $135,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Instituto Familiar De La Raza | San Francisco, CA | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ampac Tri-State Cdc Inc | Ontario, CA | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arcata Economic Development Corporation | Eureka, CA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California Farmlink | Aptos, CA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| El Pajaro Community Development Corporation | Watsonville, CA | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wu Yee Childrens Services | San Francisco, CA | $90,285 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Neighborhood Centers Inc | San Francisco, CA | $87,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development | San Jose, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity | San Francisco, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cdc Small Business Finance Corp | Arlington, VA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fresno Community Development Financial Institution | Fresno, CA | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| La Raza Centro Legal-San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $56,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Watershed Nursery | Ricmond, CA | $55,178 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Support for Families of Children With Disabilities | San Francisco, CA | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Youth Center of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inclusive Action for the City | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sbcs Corp | Chula Vista, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tandem Partners in Early Learning | San Francisco, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Four Dimensions Landscape Development Company | Oakland, CA | $42,860 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco Inc | San Francisco, CA | $38,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Self Help Ventures Fund | Durham, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Self- Help Federal Credit Union | Oakland, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Universe Leaving Traces LLC | San Francisco, CA | $30,002 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Capital Financial Development Corporation | Sacramento, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $26,882 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Vision Capital & Consulting | San Francisco, CA | $26,667 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | San Francisco, CA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Birth Companions Community Center | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith in Action Bay Area | Redwood City, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Womens Centers | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Esbe Salon | Fairfax, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation | Fresno, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Victoria Sf | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manos De Angel Daycare | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| El Tiny Cafe | Berkeley, CA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youth Speaks Inc | San Francisco, CA | $7,066 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 46 (22%) 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.
- Rti International
CALIFORNIA PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK - Promotoras Activas Sf
SEED COOPERATIVE AND TAX SEASON SUPPORT - Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth Homey
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS FOR CULTURAL PLACEKEEPER - Good Samaritan Family Resource Center
MISSION PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNER NETWORK - San Francisco Housing Development Corporation
CAPACITY & SYSTEMS FOR SMALL SITE ACQUISITION - Arcata Economic Development Corp
SMALL BUSINESS COALITION FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 46 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 | 1 | $10,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | $317,528 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $461,667 | $35,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $3,464,183 | $45,000 |
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
82% 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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $35,000 -- 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 Economic Development Agency'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 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 2301 Mission Street 301, San Francisco, CA, 94110.
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