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Mardag Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
117
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Human Services$3.5MArts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$1.1MHousing & Shelter$957kPhilanthropy$820kFood & Nutrition$756kCommunity Improvement$665kOther$0
02FY2024 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k103 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $450k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM$50,000
BEAR PAWS CULTURAL ART$50,000
CHANNEL ONE INC$50,000
NORTHWOODS BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER INC$50,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK$50,000
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$50,000
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$50,000
DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC$50,000
CITY OF WINONA$35,000
CHILDRENS DENTAL SERVICES INC$30,000
STATE STREET THEATER CO$30,000
HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP$25,000
NEW PATHWAYS INC$25,000
CROSSING ARTS ALLIANCE$25,000
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 (FY20–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW PATHWAYS INC: $25k → 7%SOUTHERN MN CRISIS NURSERY: $30k → 8%DOUGLAS COUNTY CAR CARE PROGRAM: $25k → 9%THE MADISON ART AND INNOVATION CENTER: $25k → 10%WARROAD COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $25k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD INC: $25k → 11%CONEXIONES: $25k → 11%CHILDS PLACE: $25k → 11%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $50k → 15%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%NEW PATHWAYS INC: $25k → 7%ACCESSIBLE SPACE INC: $25k → 14%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $30k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD INC: $25k → 11%KOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS: $25k → 12%DIVINE KONNECTIONS INC: $25k → 15%ACCESSIBLE SPACE INC: $25k → 14%PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $25k → 6%DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MPLS: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL AND MPLS: $25k → 11%LIFEGATE SERVICES: $25k → 9%LIFEGATE SERVICES: $25k → 9%PROJECT LEGACY: $25k → 9%PROJECT LEGACY: $25k → 9%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $25k → 14%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $25k → 14%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%MINNESOTA AFRICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%FAMILY VALUES FOR LIFE: $25k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $25k → 14%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 15%ALL ELDERS UNITED FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $25k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST PAUL & MPLS: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL AREA: $25k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $30k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $25k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $25k → 14%OPEN ARMS NATIVE MISSIONS: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN AREA AGENCY ON AGING I: $25k → 14%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $25k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $25k → 14%ESHARA: $25k → 14%SOLID GROUND: $50k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%IRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%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.

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 6% of Mardag 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, 100% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Mardag Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.7% 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 161 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

161 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161
154

Total granted

$8.6M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

96%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AH
    AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +40%
  • BC
    BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH
    4× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +10%
  • AE
    ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED
    4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHLAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -14%
  • R
    RECONNECTRONDOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +946%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MILK BANK FOR BABIES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%

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
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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5
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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6
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
7
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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8
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
9
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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12
Nexus Community Partners

Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is East African Healing Services. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%4/347
the rest of the field
12%
2,739/22,420

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

338 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 338 of the 370 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
331/338
Grantees still filing
225/338
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $195,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATIONANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $110,000 · Human ServicesAMPERSAND FAMILIES — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $100,000 · Human ServicesFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc — $95,000 · Human Services+45 more — $2,052,500 · Human Services+45 moreNORTHWOODS BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER INC — $150,000 · Other+80 more — $3,696,250 · Other+80 moreKAIROS ALIVE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureKAIROS ALIVESod House Theater — $90,000 · Arts & CultureSod House Theat…DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION — $85,000 · Arts & CultureDEPARTMENT OF P…Indigenous Roots — $85,000 · Arts & CultureIndigenous Root…Victoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ROCHESTER INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureDULUTH ART INSTITUTE ASSOC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureRed Wing Arts Association — $60,000 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC OUTREACH OF GOODHUE COUNTY — $60,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF SAINT PETER INC — $57,000 · Arts & CulturePENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCROW RIVER PLAYERS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBEAR PAWS CULTURAL ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $385,000 · Arts & Culture+13 moreBRIDGES OF HOPE — $95,000 · HealthBRIDGES OF…TUBMAN — $90,000 · HealthTUBMANC A R E Clinic — $90,000 · HealthC A R E Cl…LAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM — $80,000 · HealthLAKEWOOD H…RECLAIM — $70,000 · HealthRECLAIMCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $55,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…MINNESOTA MILK BANK FOR BABIES — $50,000 · HealthOWATONNA HEALTHY SENIORS PROGRAM — $50,000 · HealthELY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 · HealthELDER NETWORK — $48,500 · HealthPORTICO HEALTHNET — $40,000 · HealthTEREBINTH REFUGE — $40,000 · HealthDown Syndrome Association of Minnesota — $35,000 · Health+6 more — $165,000 · Health+6 moreSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $540,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHLAND FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AUSTIN AREA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INC — $110,295 · Youth DevelopmentRISEUP PARTNERSHIP — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR NORTH — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentOpen Doors For Youth — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $110,000 · EducationDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE — $70,000 · EducationYouthprise — $60,000 · EducationAFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS — $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $30,000 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $25,000 · EducationAKIING 8TH FIRE — $25,000 · Education
Human Services$2,652,500Other$3,846,250Arts & Culture$1,447,000Health$958,500Philanthropy$710,000Youth Development$545,295Education$395,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $540,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $195,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWOODS BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER INC — $150,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH — $120,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED — $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC — $110,295 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE — $110,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $110,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT — $100,750 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetKAIROS ALIVE — $100,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetAMPERSAND FAMILIES — $100,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH — $100,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE — $95,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICES OF CARLTON COUNTY INC — $91,666 over 2y, 11% of budgetTUBMAN — $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRISEUP PARTNERSHIP — $90,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetC A R E Clinic — $90,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSod House Theater — $90,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION — $85,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetMankato Area Foundation — $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIndigenous Roots — $85,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetPROJECT LEGACY — $80,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKEWOOD HEALTH SYSTEM — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Pathways Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetVictoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts — $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budget180 DEGREES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMANKATO YOUTH PLACE INC — $75,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetDIVINE KONNECTIONS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIRREDUCIBLE GRACE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $72,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND INC — $70,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE — $70,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA — $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKeystone Community Services — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $70,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ROCHESTER INC — $70,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUJAMAA PLACE — $70,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRECLAIM — $70,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $70,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MN CRISIS NURSERY DBA IVY HOUSE — $65,000 over 3y, 21% 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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationOtto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationMedica FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…The McKnight Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…YouthprisePropel NonprofitsHugh J Andersen Found…Women's Foundation of…
Fr Bigelow FoundationMN225.7× affinity135 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Medica Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Youthprise · Propel Nonprofits · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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 Mardag 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    106report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mardag Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mardag 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.

    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 370 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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