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1622 Mgd Foundation at a glance

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1622 Mgd Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$140kHealth$138kPhilanthropy$70kHuman Services$65kEducation$60kReligion$58kCrime & Legal$19kInternational$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$20,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$15,000
ASIAN PACIFIC CHILDRENS FUND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $35k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$463k · 13 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$463k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
-8%

Still filing today

62%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +16%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +50%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FUND - MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • CF
    CHRISTIANS FOR UNITED ISRAEL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asian Pacific Childrens Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $30,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN…JEWS AND CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL INC: $25,000 · OtherJEWS AND CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRA…UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FUND: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FUNDUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FUND - MEDICINE: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FUND - M…ASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALI: $18,000 · OtherASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOU…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL: $15,000 · OtherJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAELCHRISTIANS FOR UNITED ISRAEL: $15,000 · OtherCHRISTIANS FOR UNITED ISRAELIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherAsian Pacific Childrens Fund: $18,000 · OtherAsian Pacific Childrens FundThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $7,750 · OtherJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $140,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $52,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationCHELSEA DAY SCHOOL INC: $8,000 · EducationPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$183,750Public Benefit$140,000Health$87,500Human Services$65,000Philanthropy$52,000Education$40,000Crime & Legal$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $52,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Pacific Childrens Fund: $18,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHELSEA DAY SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 1622 Mgd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 1622 Mgd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
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By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home