California · 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.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Mbk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $94k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $102k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $102k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $127k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $82k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $81k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $75k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $73k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sky Bravery Foundation | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Partners Program | $29,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Miracosta College Foundation | $28,050 | 5 | 0% |
| Brainy Camps Association | $22,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Yellowstone Forever | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shanel Valley Academy | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank | $14,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Kappa Sigma Educational Foundation | $9,400 | 2 | 4% |
| K9s for Warriors Inc | $8,875 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($509k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mbk Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Mbk Foundation
- How much does The Mbk Foundation give?
- The Mbk Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Mbk Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (24%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are The Mbk Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Big Sky Bravery Foundation ($37k), Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc ($36k), The Partners Program ($29k).
- Does The Mbk Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mbk Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mbk Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Arizona Community Foundation.
- Where is The Mbk Foundation based?
- The Mbk Foundation is based in CA.
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