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My Brother's Keeper Alliance

My Brother's Keeper Alliance (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,795,182 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$13k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
$0
0/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 75%
01What it does

What My Brother's Keeper Alliance does

Mission

My Brother's Keeper Alliance ("MBK Alliance") is an independent, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) that works to elevate the voices of boys and young men of color and unite cross-sector leaders and youth to improve life outcomes and impact lasting social change.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.

Program

MBK Alliance has discontinued all program activities prior to the reporting period.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.1M)2018 Revenue 0 ($13k) Expenses 0 ($13k)
20172018
Revenue (0)Expenses (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$0
$0
20172018
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$770k
’17
$0
’18
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4.7M → $9k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of My Brother's Keeper Alliance’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

My Brother's Keeper Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

My Brother's Keeper Alliance draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.

NY
OR
NJ
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $685k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for My Brother's Keeper Alliance: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds My Brother's Keeper Alliance?
My Brother's Keeper Alliance (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,795,182 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does My Brother's Keeper Alliance have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,795,182 in grants to My Brother's Keeper Alliance.
Who is the largest funder of My Brother's Keeper Alliance?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like My Brother's Keeper Alliance find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 11 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing