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MBL Family Foundation at a glance

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MBL Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$80kHealth$49kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$129k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$8,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5k → 17%FUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA RESEARCH EDUCATION: $650 → 10%CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 10%THE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $2k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3k → 17%THE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1k → 17%THE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%DIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%DIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%MARJORIES FUND: $3k → 17%MARJORIES FUND: $2k → 17%MARJORIES FUND: $1k → 17%DIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%MARJORIES FUND: $500 → 17%DIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%MARJORIES FUND: $500 → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY - WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $5k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY - WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $3k → 17%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $5k → 17%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV IN THE CITY OF NY: $5k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3k → 17%JDRF INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 7 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$116k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+49%

Still filing today

86%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • DE
    DIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +63%
  • Cornell University
    5× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +59%
  • TW
    THE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • Bucknell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +34%
  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +65%
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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Diabetes Empowerment International Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $34,500 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 · EducationTHE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGOTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW …UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $4,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERBucknell University: $3,575 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationDIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,750 · InternationalDIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNA…CORNELL UNIVERSITY - WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $7,500 · OtherCORNELL UNI…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $5,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF…CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · OtherCHESAPEAKE …CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsFUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsFOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $6,375 · Arts & CultureMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,250 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,000 · HealthCONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA RESEARCH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $650 · Health
Education$69,575International$35,750Other$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Arts & Culture$6,375Health$5,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIABETES EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,750 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetCornell University: $34,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSTON SCHOOL OF SAN DIEGO: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE AIDS MONUMENT: $6,375 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $3,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUSION ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA RESEARCH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 MBL Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MBL Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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