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Mkm Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 73 grants below total $1,616,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,000,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $384,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $920k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $75,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC | $75,000 |
| INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC. | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA | $50,000 |
| BETHESDA PROJECT | $50,000 |
| JUVENILE LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| INTERACT INC | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC | $50,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING | $50,000 |
| CIVIC SUDS CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| HISPANIC FEDERATION INC | $40,000 |
| FREE THE SLAVES INC | $30,000 |
| CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $956k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Mkm Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 81 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
Philabundance3× · 2020–2022 · $320k · revenue +0%
DIRECT RELIEF3× · 2020–2022 · $315k · revenue +20%- PCPHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING3× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +16%
Funded once
Elon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +34%
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INCone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +19%- SRSCHUYLKILL RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -71%
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.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Urban Archive Inc. 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 27 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 181 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 Philabundance ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR AGING ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Achieve Now ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TEAM UP PHILLY ↗
- Who funds Civic Suds Corporation ↗
- Who funds RODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREE THE SLAVES ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICE WOMENS ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds INTERACT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAZZ BRIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Independence Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Union Benevolent Association · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation
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 Mkm Foundation 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.
- New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Ritz Theater Company Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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.
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