· Private foundation
The Mjk Family 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 · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEP UP | $60,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD | $15,000 |
| OAKWOOD SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $5,360 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE | $5,000 |
| TEAM THEATRICS INC DBA LOS ANGELES BALLET ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ANGEL CITY SPORTS DBA ANGEL CITY ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TBTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC6× · 2017–2022 · $310k · revenue +187%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +19%
- DSDALTON SCHOOLS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $275k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAIone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TFTHE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN NURSEY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
MILTON ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +16%
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Team Theatrics Inc Dba Los Angeles Ballet Academy. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 12% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 130 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 THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Violence Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ONE STORY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TEAM THEATRICS INC DBA LOS ANGELES BALLET ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEST INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY 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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · Rosenthal Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Karl Slovin Private Charitable Foundation · Brotman Foundation of California · The Eisner Foundation Inc · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert 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 Mjk Family 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.
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.
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