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Mdm 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Mdm Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Grand Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Mdm Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $29k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLAGE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOPE HARBOR | $4,200 |
| CALLAWAY GOOD LIFE CENTER | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $2,500 |
| PIERCE CHAPEL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCOLLAGE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +113%
- HHHOPE HARBOR INC6× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +46%
- SMSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +28%
- MFMerrick FoundationIncone grant, 2019 · $5k
- STSTATE THEATER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -24%
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.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Cathedral center is dedicated to helping seniors live meaningful lives with dignity from the active to the homebound, improving their quality of life by assisting all seniors.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
It is the mission of good samaritan hospice to affirm life in the midst of illness and grief. we accomplish this objective by providing quality patient care, family support, community education and counseling services through an…
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Hunger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 GREATER GRAND ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALLAWAY GOOD LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HUNGER ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GREATS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
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: Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Fred & Amanda Glade Foundation · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Virgil Eihusen Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mdm 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.