Skip to content
Mr B Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$49k
Granted FY2021
39
Grants FY2021
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

22
’20
23
’21
4
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Social Science$769kCommunity Improvement$42kYouth Development$16kInternational$10kArts & Culture$9kEnvironment$8kHousing & Shelter$5kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2021 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k38 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO$1,800
JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS$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
NEW ISRAEL FUND$1,000
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC$1,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS: $500 → 8%LAKE STREET COUNCIL: $1k → 11%RSF SOCIAL FINANCE: $769k → 10%NEW ISRAEL FUND: $1k → 17%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ABERCROMBIE AND KENT PHILANTHROPY: $3k → 7%CANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $500 → 8%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY (HIAS): $1k → 8%NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $500 → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $3k → 8%MY BLOCK MY HOOD MY CITY: $1k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $500 → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $2k → 8%BOXING OUT NEGATIVITY: $10k → 14%BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1k → 17%NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $1k → 8%BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1k → 17%NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $1k → 8%BOXING OUT NEGATIVITY: $5k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $400 → 17%RAVINIA FESTIVAL: $1k → 8%RAVINIA FESTIVAL: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $500 → 8%STONE TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH: $4k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%JCUA COMMUNITY VENTURES PROGRAM: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY VENTURES LLCJEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS: $5k → 14%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $400 → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS: $2k → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS: $2k → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS: $2k → 14%WTTW CHICAGO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $1k → 14%WTTW CHICAGO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $1k → 14%WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO: $1k → 14%WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO: $1k → 14%MISHKAN SYNAGOGUE CHICAGO: $1k → 14%BLACK UNITED FUND OF ILLINOIS (EQUITICITY): $2k → 14%NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $2k → 14%WORKING BIKES: $4k → 14%WORKING BIKES: $2k → 14%SINAI CHICAGO: $500 → 14%IMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $2k → 14%AIDS FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO: $500 → 14%GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 14%GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 14%GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
IN
CA
VA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 16 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
19

Total granted

$69k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+39%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GP
    Garfield Park Community Council
    3× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +8%
  • BO
    Boxing Out Negativity Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +188%
  • WB
    Working Bikes
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CV
    COMMUNITY VENTURES LLCJEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • ST
    STONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • AK
    ABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +262%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

—
4
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
5
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
6
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

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

—
7
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
8
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits

Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…

Community Improvement
9
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
10
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $769,085 · Social ScienceRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INCJCUA COMMUNITY VENTURES PROGRAM: $7,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY VENTURES LLCJEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $4,800 · OtherSTONE TEMPLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $3,600 · OtherWBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO: $2,400 · OtherWTTW CHICAGO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $2,400 · OtherBEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $2,200 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $2,000 · OtherBLACK UNITED FUND OF ILLINOIS (EQUITICITY): $1,800 · OtherNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $2,650 · OtherRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $1,800 · Other+29 more: $12,153 · OtherGarfield Park Community Council: $21,000 · Community ImprovementJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $5,400 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council: $1,000 · Community ImprovementBoxing Out Negativity Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentWorking Bikes: $5,800 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $2,200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATION: $400 · InternationalABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1,800 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $750 · PhilanthropyHighland Park Community Foundation: $500 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $500 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $500 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $500 · Health
Social Science$769,085Other$50,303Community Improvement$27,400Youth Development$16,000International$10,400Philanthropy$6,550Health$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $769,085 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGarfield Park Community Council: $21,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBoxing Out Negativity Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWorking Bikes: $5,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: $2,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $270 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOYSTER BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARE2TRI PARATRIATHLON CLUB: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Jewish Federation of …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationForefrontSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Chicago Community TrustIL24.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mr B Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mr B Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 60 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Mr B’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home