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Mhk Foundation Tr

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$200,000
INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND MILITARY$200,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$200,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$200,000
JUSTICE IN MOTION$200,000
ASPCA$150,000
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$100,000
FARM CAFE INC$50,000
E2D INC$50,000
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND$25,000
HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTICS RIDING$25,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $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%HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION: $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
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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $800k · revenue +62%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $760k · revenue +0%
  • JI
    JUSTICE IN MOTION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $550k · revenue +35%

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%
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.

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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 5.1% 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 budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 7.9% 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 budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Mhk Foundation Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mhk Foundation Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% 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, 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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