· Private foundation
The Mdc Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MT SINAI HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HORIZONS NATIONAL | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BOTTOM LINE | $5,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| MUDDY PAWS RESCUE | $5,000 |
| STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER | $2,000 |
| RISING STARR HORSE RESCUE | $1,500 |
| AMERICARES | $1,000 |
| ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSUEM | $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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +77% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +37%
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +110%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- AWAMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +225%
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +19%
- JYJuntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Incone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Americares 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.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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 JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds RISING STARR HORSE RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Muddy Paws Rescue ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BULLY CREW ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMMINGBIRD FARM ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Mdc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.