How much does Mako Foundation give?

Mako Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $383,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Mako Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (16%), Civil Rights (15%), Environment (12%).

Who are Mako Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($125k), Center for Public Interest Research Inc ($100k), International Medical Corps ($100k).

Does Mako Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mako Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mako Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation, Ibm International Foundation.

Where is Mako Foundation based?

Mako Foundation is based in IL.

Mako Foundation

Mako Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

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.

$384k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$316kCivil Rights$297kEnvironment$239kCommunity Improvement$160kArts & Culture$159kEducation$151kHealth$128kRecreation & Sports$105kOther$0

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k37 grants · $89k
$10k–50k21 grants · $295k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS	$25,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$25,000
TYPE MEDIA CENTER (FKA THE NATION INSTITUTE)	$20,000
MOVEMENT VOTER FUND VIA TIDES FOUNDATION	$20,000
STREETSQUASH	$20,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC	$20,000
PROTEUS FUND - RISE TOGETHER FUND	$15,000
BLACK FARMER FUND	$15,000
PROTEUS FUND - PIPER FUND	$15,000
COLLECTIVE POWER FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE	$10,000
PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE	$10,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY	$10,000
BARD COLLEGE - BARD PRISON INITIATIVE	$10,000
FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE	$10,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER (ILRC)	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 62 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+40%

Still filing today

71%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +26%
CF
CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +17%
IM
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +24%

Funded once

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%
CV
COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTINGgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +137%
RO
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - NEW ENGLAND LITERATURE PROGRAM (NEL
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

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.

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Manhattanville University

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

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

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…

—

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 90 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/63

Grantees still filing

40/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,074,376Education$189,650Environment$174,000International$164,000Health$153,000Crime & Legal$115,000Recreation & Sports$105,000

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.

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.

Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley IncNY21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mako Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mako Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mako Foundation?

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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home