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Mri Software Foundation Formerly Known as Mri Roar Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$114kEducation$88kHealth$66kHuman Services$58kYouth Development$47kFood & Nutrition$39kInternational$32kPhilanthropy$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$11,008
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST OHIO$10,000
LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION$10,000
TAS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (SHOES4EVERYONE)$8,000
SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
PI SIGMA EPSILON GAMMA NU CANCER FUNDRAISER$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
LOTUS CAMPAIGN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AFRICENTRIC ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL$3,040
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$3,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$965
KIDSCAN CHARITABLE TRUST$500
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.

US giving: 84% of grant dollars ($424k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($81k) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $5k → 17%THE REFUGEE RESPONSE: $5k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $5k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $11k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 17%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $3k → 17%CHAIR-ITY INC: $3k → 17%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 16% of all-years giving ($81k)

6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$37k · 3 grants
Canada$12k · 3 grants
Austria$11k · 1 grant
India$10k · 1 grant
Australia$8k · 1 grant
New Zealand$4k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Mri Software Foundation Formerly Known as Mri Roar Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mri Software Foundation Formerly Known as Mri Roar Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 8 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
41

Total granted

$132k
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+10%

Still filing today

88%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +1%
  • NO
    NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +108%
  • OI
    OHIO INVENTION LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • GA
    GRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue +20%
  • MS
    MRI SOFTWARE FOUNDATION UK
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • EE
    ENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +151%
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
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
2
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

—
3
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
4
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

—
5
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
6
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
7
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
9
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
10
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
11
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Odyssey Group Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
19/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MRI SOFTWARE FOUNDATION UK: $30,446 · OtherMRI SOFTWARE FOUNDATION UKMRI SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LIMITED: $10,767 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $10,000 · OtherCARE (INDIA) MODULE NO 411 4TH FLOOR: $10,000 · OtherTAS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (SHOES4EVERYONE): $8,000 · OtherRAISE FOUNDATION (AUSTRALIA): $7,542 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $22,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIOUkrainian Action: $12,700 · OtherUkrainian ActionEducate: $10,360 · OtherThe National Public Housing Museum: $10,000 · Other+25 more: $91,655 · Other+25 moreNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $21,008 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST OHIO …GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE …CUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesCUMBERLAND YOUT…BACK ON MY FEET: $10,000 · Human ServicesBACK ON MY FEETHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCH…RESOURCE CLEVELAND: $5,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CLEVEL…CHAIR-ITY: $2,500 · Human ServicesENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · EducationENVISION EXCEL…OHIO INVENTION LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · EducationOHIO INVENTION…THE MALALA FUND: $10,000 · EducationTHE MALALA FUN…THE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE MIDAS COLL…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $5,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…GRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC: $43,466 · Housing & ShelterGRACE AT TH…THE LOTUS CAMPAIGN: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LOTUS C…MOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $20,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $965 · HealthUndies for Everyone: $20,000 · PhilanthropyODYSSEY GROUP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $3,500 · Philanthropy
Other$223,970Human Services$68,508Education$65,000Housing & Shelter$53,466Food & Nutrition$35,000Health$30,965Philanthropy$28,500

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 budgetGRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC: $43,466 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $21,008 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO INVENTION LEAGUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUkrainian Action: $12,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEducate: $10,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOTUS CAMPAIGN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Elementary of Akron: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetODYSSEY GROUP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE THRU SOAP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRESOURCE CLEVELAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAIR-ITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $965 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 Cleveland Foundat…Murphy Family Foundat…Higley Fund of the Cl…Community West Founda…The George Gund Found…Jewish Federation of …Akron Community Found…Charities Aid Foundat…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Cleveland FoundationOH18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Community West Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Akron Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mri Software Foundation Formerly Known as Mri Roar Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mri Software Foundation Formerly Known as Mri Roar Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • The Midas Collaborative Inc: 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Mri Software Foundation Formerly Known as Mri Roar Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 59 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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