· Private foundation
Mdbc Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (RIETS) | $120,000 |
| YESHIVA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OPERATION OPEN CURTAIN | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA CENTRAL QUEENS | $10,000 |
| YAD YISRAEL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,900 |
| THE JEWISH CENTER | $2,000 |
| KEW GARDENS SYNAGOGUE | $1,625 |
| ROFEH C CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS CHESED | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| TIDE ACADEMY | $300 |
| CHABAD'S TERROR VICTIM PROJECT | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +25%
- CFCentral Fund of Israel2× · 2022–2023 · $56k · revenue +75%
- OIONE ISRAEL FUND LTD2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +234%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- EEMUNAHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MJMANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2020 · $18k
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.
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.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Religious Teaching
Religious School
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mdbc Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mdbc Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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