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Mps Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$422k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$19,726
Largest grant, FY2024
$277,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$41M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Mps Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
HealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2024still arriving8$402k13%
FY202312$535k83%
FY20227$346k100%
FY20211$50kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$435kEducation$361kArts & Culture$95kFood & Nutrition$90kEnvironment$40kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health$300,0002n/a
Cornell University$125,00020%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$90,00030%
Healthier Kids Foundation$65,00021%
Seattle Symphony Foundation$65,00021%
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc$30,00010%
The Washington STEM Center$20,00010%
Forterra Nw$20,00020%
National Forest Foundation$20,00020%
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia$20,00010%
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All grantees of Mps Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health$300,0002n/a
Cornell University$125,00020%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$90,00030%
Healthier Kids Foundation$65,00021%
Seattle Symphony Foundation$65,00021%
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc$30,00010%
The Washington STEM Center$20,00010%
Forterra Nw$20,00020%
National Forest Foundation$20,00020%
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia$20,00010%
Cal Poly Corporation$10,00010%
Vision House$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealthier Kids Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSeattle Symphony Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSeattle Symphony Orchestra Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Washington STEM Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForterra Nw: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBenaroya Research Institute at Virginia: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCal Poly Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 11.

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.

M J Murdock Charitable TrustWA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Seattle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

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About Mps Charitable Foundation

How much does Mps Charitable Foundation give?
Mps Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $421,726 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Mps Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (27%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Mps Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Virginia Mason Franciscan Health ($300k), Cornell University ($125k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($90k).
Does Mps Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mps Charitable 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 Mps Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include M J Murdock Charitable Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Seattle Foundation.
Where is Mps Charitable Foundation based?
Mps Charitable Foundation is based in WA.

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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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