How much did MDRC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of MDRC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

awardgeneseewesthillscity'sunifiedenvironment

2019

restriced awardsafeenvironmentadulttransformagesix

2020

starfishoaccovertreasurerohio'smemberhealthy

2021

city'sexternalgovernmenttechnicalserves

2022

readinesseconomic independencesciencesafetylenaboostworks

2023

mathzenofutureeligiblefoodfederalehs

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$250k+2 grants · $674k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$157M

Total assets

Largest grants

IMPACT FOR EQUITY$384,903
ASCEND STL INC$289,000
CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS$20,000
NORTHEASTERN JUNIOR COLLEGE$10,000
HUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
LINDSAY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23M · 79 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

79 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+53%

Still filing today

44%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther

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

IF
IMPACT FOR EQUITY
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +25%
TF
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $789k · revenue +118%
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $703k · revenue +26%

Funded once

SD
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PITTSBURG
one grant, 2018 · $400k
VD
VISTA DEL LAGO HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $187k
ES
EVERGREEN SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2017 · $162k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Child Care Associates

To assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive child care and development services.

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Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care & education through integrated support & expertise.

Human Services

The Open Center for Children Inc

Child care services.

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Child Care Council of Westchester Inc

Westchester County's leading authority on child care, the Child Care Council of Westchester, Inc. is one of the largest child care resource and referral agencies in the state of New York. A nonprofit, 501(c)(3) agency, the Council plays a…

Human Services

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

Community Connections for Children Inc

Community connections for children, inc ensures that all families have access to affordable, high quality child care choices that lead to success in school and life.

Human Services

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

Educare Dc

To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.

Human Services

Educational Child Care Center

Provide child care that promotes growth of the whole child while responding to needs of the family.

Human Services

The Child Care Connection Inc

Child care connection provides the tools and education to give each child the very best start in life.

Human Services

Catalyst for Educational Change

Catalyst for educational change (cec) is a nonprofit consulting agency that works with adult leaders in solving complex problems in educational systems. cec uses continuous improvement practices and deep collaboration to help educational…

Education

Community United Child Care Centers Inc

Providing quality child care in a nurturing environment.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/175

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,390

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.

05the grantee network

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

72/74

Grantees still filing

62/74

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$17,700,607Philanthropy$2,325,571Human Services$2,203,653Community Improvement$1,347,802Housing & Shelter$1,328,650Education$1,153,376Crime & Legal$1,007,952

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.

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.

American Association of CommunityDC42.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Association of Community · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Jobs for the Future Inc · The Aspen Institute Inc · Educational Credit · Achieving the Dream Inc · Council of State and Territorial · Share Our Strength · Columbus Foundation · National Council for State Authorization · Recreational Boating and Fishing · American Bar Association

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 organisation MDRC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ASCEND STL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 431844396 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ASCEND STL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mdrc?

Find your warmest path to Mdrc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MDRC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mdrc?

More from the funding graph

MDRC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

74 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mdrc?

More from the funding graph