· Private foundation
The Mbk Foundation
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 $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - BIO5 KEYS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC COLORADO | $10,800 |
| BIG SKY BRAVERY | $6,400 |
| THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - COLLEGE OF SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ACCOUNTING DEVEL FUND | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - BIO5 KEYS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $4,400 |
| KAPPA SIGMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $4,400 |
| SHANEL VALLEY ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| WARRIORS OF QUIET WATERS | $3,000 |
| SEACOAST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| COLORADO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500 |
| K9 FOR WARRIORS | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +22% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.
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, 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
- BSBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +809%
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $36k · revenue +20%- MCMIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- BCBRAINY CAMPS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $26k
- ECEXTREME COMMUNITY MAKEOVERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA - ANTHROPOLOGY DEPTone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction 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 33 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) — 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 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.
27 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. 27 of the 53 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 BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAINY CAMPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds SHANEL VALLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Kappa Sigma Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds JOBPATH INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PAYSON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HANDI-DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA MEALS ON WHEELS 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: The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 The Mbk 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.