· Private foundation
Mrb Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $720k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $765k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| HILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $125,250 |
| LAKE FOREST LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JOHN G SHEDD AQUARIUM | $80,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $80,000 |
| HIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $45,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC | $40,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC | $40,000 |
| THE GLOBAL GIVING FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WAVE HILL INC | $35,000 |
| SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $30,000 |
| RIVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
158 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 91 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $441k 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
- TFTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2023 · $644k · revenue +72%
- SASHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +67%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $495k · revenue +62%
Funded once
Chicago Zoological Societygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +31%- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2024 · $25k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Osa Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
159 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. 159 of the 199 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAVE HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL THYROID ONCOLOGY GROUP (ITOG) ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE FOREST LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
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: Kitchings Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Parkinson Family Foundation Inc · Enid Storm Dwyer Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Mrb Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Holy Cross Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School — 0% of income from government
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.
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