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Mody Foundation

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.

$75k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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69% of Mody Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Mody Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $75k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
9
’18
7
’19
8
’20
6
’21
3
’22
9
’23
2
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
8
Total assets, FY2023
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Mody Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitInternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202312$75k67%
FY202210$173k60%
FY20218$71k63%
FY202010$126k50%
FY201912$101k58%
FY201815$217k60%
FY201715$125kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$614kHealth$326kEducation$266kHuman Services$129kReligion$107kYouth Development$69kCrime & Legal$53kScience & Tech$47kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mody Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Langley School Inc: $114,402 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potomac School: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe 13th Man Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFight for Children Inc: $30,900 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDistrict of Columbia College Access Program: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHellenic Initiative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $23,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMonumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTouching Heart: $10,757 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHartwood Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitydance Ensemble Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNova 94 Feet Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDream On 3: $8,240 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Women's Center: $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJoshua M Freeman Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKyle Kuzma Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Add Impact Network Inc: $3,085 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Safe Children Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld TEAM Sports: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThrow Away Dogs Project: $850 over 1y, 0.6% of budget24 Foundation Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Borgen Project: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheir Lives Matter: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFranklin Mineral Museum: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

W Russell and Norma Ramsey Foundation IncVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W Russell and Norma Ramsey Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Kimsey Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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How do I get to Mody Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mody Foundation 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.

About Mody Foundation

How much does Mody Foundation give?
Mody Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $74,560 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mody Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Health (18%), Education (15%).
Who are Mody Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Langley School Inc ($114k), Children's Hospital Foundation ($100k), Inova Health System Foundation ($100k).
Does Mody Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mody Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mody Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include W Russell and Norma Ramsey Foundation Inc, The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Mody Foundation based?
Mody Foundation is based in VA.

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 63 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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