Annual Report

Report on Finances/Financial Statement for Fiscal Year 2024-2025

Annual Report for July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025

Dear friend, supporter, donor, volunteer, and member of the Mission Preservation Foundation,

We thank you for a year of progress and preservation as we continued to steward the site with an eye to the past. What a profound milestone we have achieved, alongside our nation’s birthday, the marker of 25 decades or 250 years as a place of great purpose and meaning.

With the Mission’s 250^th anniversary now upon us, it is inspiring to see how many people, households, and entities it takes to keep the Landmark vibrant as place of inspiration, education and preservation. Your support, and willingness to give any gift of any size this last year allowed us to continue to deliver on the promise of the place in terms of delivering education programs for young people, being a place of hope for those that need it and serving as a site for celebration for all. For sure, we look at the last year as one where we remembered the builders, celebrated traditions, welcomed people from all over the world, and carried out a place of living history, continued meaning, and a forever place of faith and beauty.

While we aim to work efficiently, utilizing precious resources for caretaking and programming, we also want to economically and purposefully share how the finances stand here. The Mission relies on its own self-determination for staying open, receiving no funding from the Church or the State, but instead relying on admission fees, event rental income, special events and fundraising event dollars, memberships, net proceeds from the Mission Store, and of course, donations.    

As you can see from our financial statement the Mission’s support is broad. You can also see firsthand that funds used are dedicated toward preservation and museum efforts, as seen in the listing of all preservation work carried out since 2003, broken down, year by year for your reference on pages 35 through 38.

What these numbers collectively represent is the selfless sacrifices of others to ensure that Father Serra’s vision, and the legacy of our indigenous builders continues to thrive, expand and prosper some 250 years later. We provide this information to thank you once again for your support and celebrate each and every name, company, person listed on our Historic Supporters Registry for this past year. Should you have any questions or concerns about your donation, feel free to reach out to Jena McKinley, Staff Accountant, at (949) 234-1326 or myself at mlawrence-adams@missionsjc.com.

We hope you will plan to visit us this year, whether for a lecture, a tour, a stroll in the gardens, free birthday cupcakes or more. The Mission San Juan Capistrano stands ready to welcome you, now, as it has for the past 25 decades.

For your part in creating a wonderful last year and a thriving place of purpose, we thank you.¡Viva la Misión!

Mission San Juan Capistrano 2024/2025 in review: