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Mdrc
MDRC is dedicated to improving the well-being of low-income people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
78 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TFTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $789k · revenue +162%
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $703k · revenue +71%- PCPassages Connecting Fathers & Sons4× · 2017–2022 · $686k · revenue +131% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- PPPittsburgh Public Schoolsone grant, 2018 · $400k
- MVMORENO VALLEY USDone grant, 2017 · $187k
- ESEvergreen School Districtone grant, 2017 · $162k
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.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.
Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.
At catalyst family, inc., we believe that strong families build strong communities. we are committed to nurturing vibrant communities where children thrive and families succeed, creating lasting change.
To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…
Child care resources' mission is to help kids grow into successful adults by enriching the learning environment of their crucial early years.
Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.
We deliver head start and related programs throughout southeastern az for prenatal through preschool aged children and their families. the focus of our work is: early childhood education & school readiness; health & nutrition; and parent…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Artc Center Child. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
77 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. 77 of the 176 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FOR EQUITY ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons ↗
- Who funds ASCEND STL INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN ↗
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: American Association of Community Colleges · Jobs for the Future Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Aspen Institute Inc · Achieving the Dream Inc · American Association of Colleges and Universities · Columbus Foundation · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Share Our Strength · I Car Education Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Strada Education Foundation Inc
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 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.
- The Agricultural and Labor Program Inc — 97% of income from government
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Community Coordinated Care for Children Inc — 19% of income from government
- Tools of the Mind — 0% of income from government
- Children's Forum 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.