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Mako 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $25,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC | $20,000 |
| STREETSQUASH | $20,000 |
| MOVEMENT VOTER FUND VIA TIDES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TYPE MEDIA CENTER (FKA THE NATION INSTITUTE) | $20,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND - PIPER FUND | $15,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND - RISE TOGETHER FUND | $15,000 |
| BLACK FARMER FUND | $15,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE - BARD PRISON INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| HUDSON RIVER HOUSING | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | $10,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER (ILRC) | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING (FKA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY LO | $10,000 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 17 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +26%- CFCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +17%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +24%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%- CVCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTINGgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +137%
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 90 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds RETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED ↗
- Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CAMP NEBAGAMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLKILL VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GO DOC GO INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR MACULAR DISEASEINC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND PINE BARRENS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PERENNIAL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Novo Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Thomas & Corinne Nyquist Foundation · The Newcombe Foundation · Rotonda 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 Mako 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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Find your warmest path to Mako Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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