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MY BROTHER'S KEEPER ALLIANCE
My Brother's Keeper Alliance ("MBK Alliance") is an independent, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) that works to elevate the voices of boys and young men of color and unite cross-sector leaders and youth to improve life outcomes and impact lasting social change.
$1.1M
Granted FY2017
13
Grants
9
Communities
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $761k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
$75,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP$250,000
- NY PUBLIC LIBRARY$211,768
- ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$102,000
- LONG BEACH CARES$100,000
- ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
- UNITY COUNCIL$100,000
- PEOPLE FIRST PARTNERSHIP$75,000
- BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE$72,000
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE NATION$27,500
- PROJECT 500$20,000
- NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION$20,000
- DETROIT PARENT NETWORK$12,500
- BOSTON EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND$10,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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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Brooklyn Community Foundation
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
Philanthropy
2
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc
To help young people, especially those who need us most, build strong character and realize their full potential as responsible citizens and leaders. we do this by providing a safe haven filled with hope and opportunity, ongoing…
Youth Development
3
School Boards for Academic Excellence
To restore academic excellence and parental rights in the american education system by building a national network of state-based organizations and school board members dedicated to reforming policies and practices that improve student…
Civil Rights
4
Kqed Inc
Inform, inspire, involve
Arts & Culture
5
The Baruch College Fund
The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Education
6
The Queens Borough Public Library
Queens library transforms lives by cultivating personal and intellectual growth and by building strong communities.
Education
7
Bellevue Boys & Girls Clubs Inc
Enable young people to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
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8
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Community Improvement
9
Kipp Bay Area Schools
Kipp bay area schools prepares students with skills and confidence for their future.
Education
10
Bronx Charter School for Excellence
Charter school based in various sections of the bronx, serving grades k-8. the school was established to prepare young people from new york city to compete for admission to, and succeed in, top public, private, and parochial schools. bcse…
Education
11
Los Angeles Business Council
The los angeles business council uniting the power of business with the power of government for education and advocacy to promote environmental and economic sustainability.
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12
Minnesota Business Partnership
To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albuquerque Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Detroit Parent Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$461,768Philanthropy$274,000Other$150,000Youth Development$102,500Community Improvement$100,000Human Services$12,500
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 CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CARES ↗
- Who funds UNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FIRST PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE NATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PARENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BOSTON EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
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.
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation MY BROTHER'S KEEPER ALLIANCE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PEOPLE FIRST PARTNERSHIP.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 15.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 452464843 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PEOPLE FIRST PARTNERSHIP, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to My Brother's Keeper Alliance?
Find your warmest path to My Brother's Keeper Alliance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines