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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Civil Rights$1.1MHealth$1.0MAnimals$950kRecreation & Sports$760kHuman Services$750kFood & Nutrition$550kPhilanthropy$425kEnvironment$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.4M
$150,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY$200,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$200,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$200,000
JUSTICE IN MOTION$200,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$200,000
ASPCA$150,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$100,000
E2D INC$50,000
FARM CAFE INC$50,000
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND$25,000
HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTICS RIDING$25,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $200k → 7%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $200k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY: $200k → 14%ASPCA: $200k → 17%JUSTICE IN MOTION: $200k → 20%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $150k → 8%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTICS RIDING: $50k → 9%E2D INC: $250k → 10%MANNA FOODBANK: $200k → 12%LANSINGS BRIDGE TO RECOVERY: $50k → 14%HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION: $250k → 21%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $200k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY: $200k → 14%ASPCA: $200k → 17%JUSTICE IN MOTION: $150k → 20%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $100k → 8%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTICS RIDING: $50k → 9%E2D INC: $50k → 10%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $250k → 21%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $200k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY: $200k → 14%ASPCA: $150k → 17%JUSTICE IN MOTION: $150k → 20%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTICS RIDING: $25k → 9%FARM CAFE INC: $50k → 21%INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY: $150k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE: $50k → 17%JUSTICE IN MOTION: $50k → 20%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FARM CAFE INC: $50k → 21%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $250k → 17%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $50k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $200k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $200k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $110k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 11 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$5.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+15%

Still filing today

82%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCrime & LegalAnimalsFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $800k · revenue +44%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $760k · revenue +0%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2021–2025 · $550k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +15%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +141%

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.

1
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
5
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
6
American Civil Liberties Union Inc

As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…

7
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
8
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
9
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
10
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
11
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
12
Center for a Humane Economy Inc

There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY — $750,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARYE2D INC — $300,000 · OtherE2D INCAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc — $250,000 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Orego…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF THE D…HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $125,000 · OtherHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCFARM CAFE INC — $100,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $250,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSEAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATI…+1 more — $50,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $550,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCI…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $800,000 · HealthDana-Farber Can…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDA…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $760,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK …JUSTICE IN MOTION INC — $550,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE IN…BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $50,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENT…THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $250,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $200,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $425,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,175,000Animals$950,000Health$850,000Recreation & Sports$760,000Crime & Legal$600,000Food & Nutrition$450,000Philanthropy$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $760,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE IN MOTION INC — $550,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $550,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $425,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $125,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFARM CAFE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mhk Foundation Tr 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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