· Private foundation
Mattel Children's Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATCHING GRANTS | $62,437 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $25,000 |
| GOOD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| MUSEIQUE | $10,000 |
| QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| EMERGE CONNECTICUT | $7,500 |
| SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER | $7,500 |
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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($2.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($325k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($325k)
16 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Save The Children Federation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +21%- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +117%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FMFUNDACION MEXICANA DE APOYO INFANTIL ACone grant, 2018 · $71k
- TATHE ALANNAH & MADELINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- MMASOOMone grant, 2017 · $24k
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of New York City and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 108 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds AID FOR AIDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Fletcher Family Charitable Foundation · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Mattel Children's 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.
- Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 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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