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Mdk 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.

$29k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,620
Largest grant, FY2024
$16,426
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$76k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Mdk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$29k50%
FY20237$47k29%
FY20225$50k20%
FY20215$35k40%
FY20205$34k20%
FY201911$42k64%
FY20189$44k11%
FY201712$65kn/a
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$196kReligion$98kHealth$6kEducation$6kHuman Services$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Ohr Yechezkel Inc$33,6808n/a
Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc$5,60020%
Yeshiva Sholom Shachna$4,5681n/a
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim$4,32021%
Catskills Hatzalah Inc$3,60010%
Samchainu Inc$3,6001n/a
Yeshiva Noam Hatorah$2,0001n/a
Bnos Orchos Chaim Inc$1,95020%
Yeshiva Tiferes Elimelech$1,6812n/a
Bais Rivka Rochel Inc$1,6801n/a
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All grantees of Mdk Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Ohr Yechezkel Inc$33,6808n/a
Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc$5,60020%
Yeshiva Sholom Shachna$4,5681n/a
Yeshiva Yesodei Hachaim$4,32021%
Catskills Hatzalah Inc$3,60010%
Samchainu Inc$3,6001n/a
Yeshiva Noam Hatorah$2,0001n/a
Bnos Orchos Chaim Inc$1,95020%
Yeshiva Tiferes Elimelech$1,6812n/a
Bais Rivka Rochel Inc$1,6801n/a
Derech Dovid$1,6351n/a
Khal Adas Paye$1,2001n/a
Zichron Yehuda Fund$1,18020%
Bonei Olam Inc$1,00010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($278k), not named here.

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.

The Ojc FundNY24.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Yzdr Family Foundation · Y T M Charitable Foundation · Albert & Melissa Sutton Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Mdk Foundation

How much does Mdk Foundation give?
Mdk Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $28,631 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mdk Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (57%), Religion (28%), Health (2%).
Who are Mdk Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Congregation Ohr Yechezkel Inc ($34k), Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc ($6k), Yeshiva Sholom Shachna ($5k).
Does Mdk Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mdk 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 Mdk Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Donors Fund Inc.
Where is Mdk Foundation based?
Mdk Foundation is based in NY.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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