· Private foundation
M Night Shyamalan Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ONE LIFE TO LOVE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE SMALL WORLD | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 67% of grant dollars ($1.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 33% that went abroad ($759k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 33% of all-years giving ($759k)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SESYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE8× · 2017–2024 · $354k · revenue +66%
- JPJOUNCE PARTNERS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $268k · revenue +173%
- 1P12 PLUS6× · 2018–2023 · $265k · revenue +232%
Funded once
YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +26%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- MMSEMVSone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
Isep empowers higher education institutions to expand the perspectives and potential of students around the world through our wide range of accessible, authentic academic intercultural programs.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
To improve the quality of life in marginalized communities.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
Accelerate momentum for justice reform and public safety innovation in every corner of the country. the just trust for education works to create stronger, more resilient state and national advocacy and public education ecosystems that can…
yes. every kid. is a leading advocacy team with a families-first approach to transform America's education policy landscape.
To ensure tanzanian children and youth have access to a quality education.
Eab works in partnership with marginalized communities in the dominican republic to co-create lasting solutions to extreme poverty, through educational, community development and service learning prog.
Advancing quality education in sierra leone through local partnerships.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SYRIAN EMERGENCY TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds JOUNCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds 12 PLUS ↗
- Who funds Education Bridge ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE BARS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE LIFE TO LOVE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MAZZONI CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization M Night Shyamalan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M Night Shyamalan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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