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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HELLENIC INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| THE 13TH MAN INC | $10,000 |
| HARTWOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,400 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| KING HUSSEIN FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| KYLE KUZMA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| DREAM ON 3 | $3,090 |
| THE LANGLEY SCHOOL | $1,220 |
| THROW AWAY DOGS PROJECT | $850 |
| THEIR LIVES MATTER | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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
- TLTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2023 · $114k · revenue +47%
- TPThe Potomac School2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +46%
- VTVETERAN TICKETS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +483%
Funded once
- TATruth AAU Incone grant, 2022 · $102k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +3%
- FFFIGHT FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue +43%
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
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.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Their Lives Matter. 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 26 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 63 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds THE 13TH MAN INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds VETERAN TICKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCHING HEART ↗
- Who funds NOVA 94 FEET INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HARTWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Dream On 3 ↗
- Who funds The Women's Center ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
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: 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
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 Mody 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.
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% 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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