How much does Mdrc give?

Mdrc reported 6 grants totaling $719,903 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (29%), Education (29%), Philanthropy (9%).

Who are Mdrc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Houston Housing Authority ($3.8M), Baltimore County Government ($2.6M), United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc ($2.3M).

Does Mdrc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mdrc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Association of Community Colleges, Jobs for the Future Inc, Ascendium Education Solutions Inc.

Mdrc

Mdrc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Mdrc

MDRC is dedicated to improving the well-being of low-income people.

$720k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$385k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$7.9MEducation$7.8MPhilanthropy$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.8MHealth$1.7MHuman Services$1.7MCrime & Legal$1.5MCivil Rights$1.0MOther$0

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$23M · 78 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+29%

Still filing today

45%

42%

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

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.

Backed again, and grew

TF
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $789k · revenue +162%
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $703k · revenue +71%
PC
Passages Connecting Fathers & Sons
4× · 2017–2022 · $686k · revenue +131% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

PP
Pittsburgh Public Schools
one grant, 2018 · $400k
MV
MORENO VALLEY USD
one grant, 2017 · $187k
ES
Evergreen School District
one grant, 2017 · $162k

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.

04Its field

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.

Children's Council of San Francisco

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…

Human Services

Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

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Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services

Early Years Inc

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…

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Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.

Human Services

Catalyst Family Inc

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.

Education

South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

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…

Education

Educare of Lincoln Inc

To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.

Education

Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services

Child Parent Centers

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…

Education

The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified

Child Care Resources

Child care resources' mission is to help kids grow into successful adults by enriching the learning environment of their crucial early years.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resource Center Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/77

Grantees still filing

52/77

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$17,675,607Philanthropy$2,325,571Human Services$2,203,653Community Improvement$1,347,802Housing & Shelter$1,328,650Education$1,178,376Crime & Legal$1,007,952

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.

American Association of Community CollegesDC44.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mdrc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mdrc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home