Moms Against Poverty
Burlingame, CA · EIN 20-8865521. Reported 105 grants totalling $2,630,216 to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2025, 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 Moms Against Poverty, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 18% 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. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 5 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,143. Half of what it reported fell between $8,623 and $32,000; the smallest was $5,016 and the largest $127,725. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
81 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $2,040,478 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Shaddai Christian Evangelistic Ministries | San Lorenzo, CA | $485,676 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Castro Valley Unififed School District | Oakland, CA | $283,660 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | San Francisco, CA | $278,058 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bret Harte Elementary School | San Francisco, CA | $271,444 | 11 | 5 | 2025 |
| Natangue Senegal USA | San Francisco, CA | $177,084 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Relief International Inc | Washington, DC | $115,042 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hunters Point Family | San Francisco, CA | $71,865 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mother Miracle | Emeryville, CA | $67,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Zia Incorporated | Philadelphia, PA | $60,360 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bret Harte Elementary School (hayward Unified School District) | Hayward, CA | $52,802 | 3 | 1 | 2025 |
| Los Robles Mcnair Academy | East Palo Alto, CA | $47,274 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Informed Parents of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $46,029 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mission Preparatory | San Francisco, CA | $45,765 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Castro Valley Unified School District | Castro Valley, CA | $43,570 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| East Palo Alto Academy Foundation | Palo Alto, CA | $36,449 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Satellite Affordable Housing Associates | Berkeley, CA | $35,670 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Medglobal Inc | Chicago Ridge, IL | $32,554 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Standup for Kids | Decatur, GA | $31,806 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Child International | Santa Ana, CA | $31,728 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Sunsar Maya Inc | San Francisco, CA | $29,087 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Spark Sf Public Schools | San Francisco, CA | $28,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Burckhalter Elementary School | Oakland, CA | $28,404 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth | Oakland, CA | $25,981 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Apa Family Support Services | San Francisco, CA | $22,586 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Families Without Borders | Alamo, CA | $21,535 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | San Mateo, CA | $18,980 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Guilford Elementary School | Sterling, VA | $17,294 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Peninsula Family Service | San Mateo, CA | $17,032 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Medglobal Inc | Chicago Ridge, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stand Up for Kids - Orange County | Orange, CA | $14,258 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Pledge to Humanity | Alamo, CA | $14,143 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Orphan Care | Laguna Hills, CA | $13,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| DC Central Kitchen Inc | Washington, DC | $12,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food for Thought of Contra Costa County | Richmond, CA | $10,805 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Convoy of Hope | Springfield, MO | $9,982 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Changing Lives Together Incorporated | Roseville, CA | $9,960 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Laurel Elementary | San Mateo, CA | $9,220 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Misssey | San Rafael, CA | $8,989 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Orphanage Foundation | Sherman Oaks, CA | $8,920 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hayward Unified Sd | Hayward, CA | $7,874 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Selma Olinder Elementary | San Jose, CA | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | San Mateo, CA | $7,655 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coleman Children and Youth Services | San Francisco, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Spanish-Speaking Unity Council of Alameda County Inc | Oakland, CA | $7,318 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Selma Olinder Elementary School ((operated By San Joseo Unified School Dist | San Jose, CA | $6,675 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Afghan Literacy Foundation | Irvine, CA | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fiesta Gardens International School (operated By San Mateo-Foster City Unif | San Mateo, CA | $6,042 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $5,834 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hunters Point Family | San Francisco, CA | $5,308 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kaleo Christian Fellowship | San Leandro, CA | $5,232 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Riverside Presbyterian Church | Sterling, VA | $5,016 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
21 of 51 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 6 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.
- Relief International
Purchase of COVID-related equip. - Castro Valley Unififed School District
battle food insecuity and hunger, improve lives of impoverished people, bring joy to kids in poor circumstances - El Shaddai Christian
Assisting impoverished families - El Shaddai Ministries
FOOD AND BASIC PROVISIONS - Natangue Senegal USA
Education construction/repair projects and hunger relief/basic needs support to the preschools - Castro Valley Unified School District
HUNGER RELIEF & BASIC PROVISIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 26 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $476,046 | $16,000 |
| 2021 | 24 | $619,563 | $11,198 |
| 2022 | 23 | $537,295 | $13,945 |
| 2023 | 16 | $371,490 | $20,159 |
| 2024 | 14 | $338,175 | $17,737 |
| 2025 | 17 | $287,647 | $10,000 |
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
89% 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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $14,143 -- 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 Moms Against Poverty's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2020-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 851 Burlway Rd Ste 800, Burlingame, CA, 94010.
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