Virginia · Nonprofit
MBL FOUNDATION INC
MBL FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,854 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($250,060). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MBL FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Tesco Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Honey Foundationlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 36% · 2019 48% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 13% · 2023 25% · 2024 20% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MBL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $45k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $473k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MBL FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MBL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MBL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MBL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 71% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of MBL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MBL FOUNDATION INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchOH · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Tesco Foundationlocalportfolio matchVA · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Honey Foundationlocalportfolio matchVA · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Jackson Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- Assoc General Contractors of Va Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Plank Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ravens Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williams Mullen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baltimore Orioles Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitch in for Baseball and Softballportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MBL FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Metropolitan Business League · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MBL FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MBL FOUNDATION INC?
- MBL FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,854 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($250,060). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MBL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,022,854 in grants to MBL FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MBL FOUNDATION INC?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MBL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 14funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing