· Private foundation
Mr B Foundation
Its FY2022 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
97% of Mr B Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Rsf Social Finance Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Mr B Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $49k. 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 FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k38 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JCUA COMMUNITY VENTURES PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| BOXING OUT NEGATIVITY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING | $2,500 |
| WORKING BIKES | $2,200 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS | $1,800 |
| IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,215 |
| WTTW CHICAGO PUBLIC TELEVISION | $1,200 |
| WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO | $1,200 |
| BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $1,200 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your 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 +50% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GPGarfield Park Community Council3× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +8%
- BOBoxing Out Negativity Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +188%
- WBWorking Bikes2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CVCOMMUNITY VENTURES LLCJEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRSone grant, 2020 · $5k
- STSTONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $4k
- AKABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +262%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Working Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 14% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 60 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 RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Garfield Park Community Council ↗
- Who funds Boxing Out Negativity Inc ↗
- Who funds Working Bikes ↗
- Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AIDS Foundation of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Forefront · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Mr B 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.
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.