Skip to content
Mobile Giving Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Mobile Giving Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to enable the mobile channel for charitable giving in support of good causes by using the convenience, security and ubiquity of text messaging and other wireless network based billing systems.

$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$7.6MInternational$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.3MHealth$719kFood & Nutrition$490kHuman Services$383kAnimals$323kYouth Development$294kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$11,760
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$50,245
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$22,900
VARIOUS QUALIFIED ORGANIZATIONS$13,075
FIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION$11,760
DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE$11,730
TELETON USA FOUNDATION$10,050
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA$9,785
VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDA$6,470
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%HELPING HANDS FOR RELIEF AND DEVELO: $5k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $4.2M → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $881k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $780k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $577k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $443k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: $14k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $408k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $320k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $23k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 30 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
28

Total granted

$13M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+6%

Still filing today

93%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyInternationalHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +46%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $532k · revenue +162%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $334k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $392k · revenue +190%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $275k · revenue -4%
  • JK
    JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $127k · revenue -13%
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
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
2
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
3
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
4
Direct Relief

Direct relief is a humanitarian aid organization, active in all 50 states and more than 80 countries, with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies - without regard to politics, religion, or…

International
5
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
6
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc

The cdc foundation helps the public health system, including the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), by forging effective partnerships between government, philanthropy, organizations, corporations and individuals to fight…

Arts & Culture
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
National Foundation for Cancer Research

To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.

Health
11
Unicef Usa Impact Fund for Children Inc

The unicef usa impact fund for children exists to develop and implement financial solutions to ensure every child is healthy, educated, protected, and respected. we believe truly scalable, long-term impact will only be accomplished when we…

Philanthropy
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation. 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

55 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. 55 of the 61 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,640,345 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Bra…+3 more: $26,715 · Human ServicesVARIOUS QUALIFIED ORGANIZATIONS: $1,135,338 · OtherVARIOUS QUALIFIED ORGAN…THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $391,545 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIO…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $280,415 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BAN…KRADDICK FOUNDATION: $244,760 · OtherKRADDICK FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $271,810 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF A…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $168,000 · OtherREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF O…+18 more: $351,532 · Other+18 moreFUNDACION TELETON USA: $569,770 · InternationalFUNDACION TE…Save The Children Federation Inc: $333,925 · InternationalSave The Chi…International Rescue Committee INC: $274,545 · InternationalInternationa…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $172,255 · InternationalUNITED STATE…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $132,025 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…+4 more: $76,799 · InternationalDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $532,260 · HealthREFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $37,850 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $21,865 · Health+2 more: $23,150 · HealthVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $148,975 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $127,410 · PhilanthropyFIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION: $35,495 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $34,950 · PhilanthropyANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $26,740 · PhilanthropyGenYOUTH Incorporated: $19,090 · Philanthropy+6 more: $61,305 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $315,405 · EducationBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $18,100 · Education+2 more: $13,700 · EducationHumane World for Animals Inc: $172,482 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $142,980 · Animals+1 more: $7,140 · Animals
Human Services$7,667,060Other$2,843,400International$1,559,319Health$615,125Philanthropy$453,965Education$347,205Animals$322,602

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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,640,345 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFUNDACION TELETON USA: $569,770 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $532,260 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $391,545 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $333,925 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $315,405 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $280,415 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $274,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $271,810 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKRADDICK FOUNDATION: $244,760 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $172,482 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $172,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $168,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $148,975 over 3y, 13% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $142,980 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $132,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $127,410 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWreaths Across America: $43,965 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $37,850 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetFIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION: $35,495 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $34,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $34,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $33,390 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $26,740 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $25,485 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $24,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $23,620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $22,510 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $22,275 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $21,974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $21,865 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $19,997 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated: $19,090 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $18,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS TEEN CHALLENGE: $16,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $14,815 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC: $14,060 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $13,365 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $13,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $11,670 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREISENBACH PHILANTHROPIES INC: $10,835 over 2y, 1.0% of budget2018 SPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMES: $9,830 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $9,185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS RICE DEPOT INC: $8,030 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetONE WARM COAT: $7,225 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREATER BIRMINGHAM HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $7,140 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $6,980 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $6,720 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundat…Major League Baseball…The Dallas FoundationJohn D and Catherine …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Baird Foundation IncGreater Houston Commu…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…Enterprise Holdings F…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Major League Baseball Charities Inc · The Dallas Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mobile Giving Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mobile Giving Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 61 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Mobile Giving’s filings →

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