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Christy and John Mack Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$18MPhilanthropy$3.1MInternational$2.5MYouth Development$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.8MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$225kEnvironment$165kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.9M
$582,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTHY US COLLABORATIVE INC$3,030,000
MICROSOCIETY INC$582,000
FAIR PLAY$250,000
SEA CORPS MARITIME GROUP$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HIP HOP PUBLIC HEALTH: $15k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
KY
VA
NC
SC
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of Christy and John Mack Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Christy and John Mack Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 10 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$24M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-3%

Still filing today

90%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TH
    THE HEALTHY US COLLABORATIVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13M · revenue +31% · 100% of their budget
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +38%
  • MI
    MICROSOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +167% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • CM
    CHARLES M VALLEE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - JACARANDA FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CP
    COASTAL PLAIN CONSERVATION GROUP
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
5
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
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/a the Endeavor Initiative Inc)

Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.

International
8
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc

Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…

Philanthropy
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

12
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Healthy Us Collaborative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%58%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,542

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HEALTHY US COLLABORATIVE INC — $13,450,000 · HealthTHE HEALTHY US COLLABORATIVE INC+1 more — $35,000 · HealthNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL — $4,000,000 · OtherNY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALCHARLES M VALLEE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherCHARLES M VALLEE FOUNDATI…FAIRPLAY INC — $250,000 · Other+18 more — $1,170,000 · Other+18 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,525,000 · InternationalInternati…THE GIVING BACK FUND — $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVIN…+2 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMICROSOCIETY INC — $1,654,000 · Education+2 more — $60,000 · EducationNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,560,000 · Crime & LegalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $300,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $125,000 · Community Improvement
Health$13,485,000Other$6,420,000International$2,525,000Philanthropy$2,515,000Education$1,714,000Crime & Legal$1,560,000Community Improvement$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HEALTHY US COLLABORATIVE INC — $13,450,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,525,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $2,500,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMICROSOCIETY INC — $1,654,000 over 6y, 39% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $1,560,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRPLAY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC — $210,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB — $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHEALTHCORPS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIP HOP Public Health Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Christy and John Mack Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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