Washington, D.C. · Public charity
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. Headquartered in washington, d.c., mba invests in communities
- $351k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $298k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $178M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mortgage Bankers Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $298k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $293k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $394k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $395k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $430k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $343k | 74% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $2.2M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $152k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 69% |
| Mba Opens Doors Foundation | $348,880 | 9 | 3% |
| Homefree USA Inc | $311,200 | 6 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Association of Real Estate Brokers Inc | $140,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Morrison Canyon Foundation Cmg Foundation | $137,995 | 4 | 4% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $98,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Convention of P E Church of the Diocese of Washington | $85,000 | 5 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Mortgage Bankers Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Mortgage Bankers Association
- How much does Mortgage Bankers Association give?
- Mortgage Bankers Association reported 18 itemized grants totaling $297,512, out of $350,876 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mortgage Bankers Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (50%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Mortgage Bankers Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization Inc ($2.0M), Mba Opens Doors Foundation ($349k), Homefree USA Inc ($311k).
- Does Mortgage Bankers Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mortgage Bankers Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, The Kresge Foundation.
- Where is Mortgage Bankers Association based?
- Mortgage Bankers Association is based in DC.
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