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Mortgage Bankers Association

The MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION (mba) is the national association representing the real estate finance industry, an industry that employs more than 280,000 people in virtually every community in the country.

$420k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$2.3MHousing & Shelter$598kPhilanthropy$351kHealth$284kEducation$250kCivil Rights$195kHuman Services$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$155kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $302,771 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $419,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $117,011 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$14,850
Median grant
7
States reached
$174M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEFREE-USA INC$65,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$60,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS$20,000
BISHOP JOHN T WALKER SCHOOL FOR BOYS$20,000
MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION$19,421
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL$17,500
HBCU BUSINESS DEANS ROUNDTABLE$15,000
ADMIN AWARDS LLC$14,850
NATIONAL COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT COALITION$12,500
LENDERS ONE$12,500
URBAN INSTITUTE$10,000
HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA$10,000
NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE$10,000
NEMA AMEN$10,000
WOLFTRAP FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $10k → 10%CARE FUND FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $10k → 10%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 17%HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%American Red Cross: $100k → 14%HOMEOWNERSHIP COUNCIL OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 27 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
43

Total granted

$2.0M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+1%

Still filing today

85%
72%

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
HealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MO
    MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $329k · revenue +119%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +64%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • MI
    MORTGAGE INDUSTRY STANDARDS MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M · revenue +19% · 69% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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2
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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5
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) serves as the unified voice for the 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities in our nation. (continued on Schedule O)

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10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
Usfn

USFN serves its members and mortgage servicing professionals by providing first-in-class education, networking opportunities, publications, and industry advocacy in support of effective and efficient business operations, as well as legal…

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12
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Fair Housing Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Morrison Canyon Foundation Cmg Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Domestic Violence ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr15%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%64%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr15%15%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/73
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,928

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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/63
Grantees still filing
38/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORTGAGE INDUSTRY STANDARDS MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementMORTGAGE INDUSTRY STANDARDS MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION IN…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INC — $120,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INC+4 more — $117,500 · Community ImprovementMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION — $328,880 · PhilanthropyMBA OPENS DOORS FOU…HOMEFREE USA INC — $261,200 · PhilanthropyHOMEFREE USA INCMORRISON CANYON FOUNDATION CMG FOUNDATION — $137,995 · PhilanthropyMORRISON CANYON FOU…+6 more — $72,500 · Philanthropy+6 moreCONVENTION OF P E CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $65,000 · OtherCONVENTION OF P E …LENDERS ONE — $62,500 · OtherLENDERS ONENATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE — $55,000 · OtherNATIONAL FAIR HOUS…ADMIN AWARDS LLC — $39,850 · OtherMAKE ROOM INC — $35,000 · OtherFANNIE MAE - WALL STREET PREP — $25,500 · OtherNATIONAL HOUSING CONFERENCE INC — $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL HOUSING C…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDAT…THE URBAN INSTITUTE — $50,000 · OtherTHE URBAN INSTITUT…+28 more — $321,775 · Other+28 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $135,000 · EducationNational HBCU Business Deans Roundtable Inc — $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationPROJECT DESTINED INC — $25,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 · Human ServicesHomeownership Council of America — $50,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $67,500 · HealthNFX — $37,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · HealthNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $150,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $5,000 · Civil Rights
Community Improvement$2,237,500Philanthropy$800,575Other$764,625Education$250,000Human Services$211,000Health$158,000Civil Rights$155,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMORTGAGE INDUSTRY STANDARDS MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION — $328,880 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetHOMEFREE USA INC — $261,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMORRISON CANYON FOUNDATION CMG FOUNDATION — $137,995 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE BROKERS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Minority Mortgag — $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL HOUSING CONFERENCE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE — $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeownership Council of America — $50,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNational HBCU Business Deans Roundtable Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetNATIONAL COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT COALITION INC — $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNFX — $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE ROOM INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT DESTINED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Center — $20,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTS FOR CHARITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Mortgage Bankers Association — $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGIRLS INC — $13,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUP FOR GROWTH ACTION INC — $13,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJay Bon Salle Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetMAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMPAIGN TO END OBESITY ACTION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEIGHBORHOODS — $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Federation of America — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHHS CAREFUND FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSO of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey Inc — $5,075 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP REHOBOTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED HOUSING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Ford FoundationWells Fargo FoundationThe Kresge FoundationThe American Institut…AARPGreater Washington Co…The Robert Wood Johns…Td Charitable Foundat…New Venture FundTulsa Community Found…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Ford FoundationNY15.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The American Institute of Architects · AARP · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Mortgage Bankers Association 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Homefree Usa Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Camp Rehoboth Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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