Mdrc
New York, NY · EIN 23-7379473. Reported 106 grants totalling $7,196,043 to 76 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mdrc, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 76 distinct organizations, with 29% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $55,075; the smallest was $5,094 and the largest $1,623,175. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Housing Authority | Houston, TX | $2,059,275 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Impact for Equity Inc | Chicago, IL | $1,007,952 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Housing Authority of Baltimore City | Baltimore, MD | $747,504 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ascend Stl Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $614,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $468,208 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Universal Presc Debtor CASE#222-12797 | Los Angeles, CA | $135,531 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Office of Child Support Services | Cleveland, OH | $123,665 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Mayors Fund to Advance New York City | New York, NY | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arkansas State University | State University, AR | $93,288 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Home & Aid Society of Illinois | Chicago, IL | $86,496 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Action for Children | Columbus, OH | $86,145 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community College of Baltimore County Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Early Learning Coalition of St Lucie County Inc | Fort Pierce, FL | $72,941 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Owens State Community College | Toledo, OH | $64,248 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana | Indianapolis, IN | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Childrens Forum Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $57,246 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Passages Connecting Fathers and Sons Inc | Cleveland, OH | $55,835 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montefiore Medical Center | Bronx, NY | $55,075 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Family Services Inc | Voorhees, NJ | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chautauqua Opportunities Inc | Dunkirk, NY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connections to Success Inc | Kansas City, MO | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County | Kensington, MD | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Service Society of Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $50,773 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Family & Childrens Service of the Suncoast Inc | Sarasota, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Board of Trustees of Essex County College | Newark, NJ | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Passaic County Community College | Paterson, NJ | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Public Health Management Corporation | Philadelphia, PA | $31,507 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stark State College | North Canton, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pinebrook Family Answers | Allentown, PA | $29,947 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Board of Education Fulton County | Atlanta, GA | $26,762 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ninth District Opportunity Inc | Gainesville, GA | $26,278 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cincinnati State Technical and Community College | Cincinnati, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Khan Academy Inc | Mountain View, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sesame Workshop | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Family Partnership | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Zeno | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kern Community College District | Bakersfield, CA | $22,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chaffey Community College District | Rancho Cucamonga, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Jersey Council of County Colleges | Hamilton Township, NJ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Washington Student Achievement Council | Olympia, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $18,567 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hudson County Community College | Jersey City, NJ | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Union County College | Cranford, NJ | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Agricultural and Labor Program Incorporated | Lake Alfred, FL | $15,275 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dallas College | Mesquite, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| State Council of Higher Education for Virginia | Richmond, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trinity Valley Community College | Althens, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wildflower Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mexican American Opportunity Foundation | Montebello, CA | $14,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Human Services Association | Bell Gardens, CA | $12,296 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lorain County Community College | Elyria, OH | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Coordinated Care for Children Inc | Orlando, FL | $11,694 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Century College | White Bear Lake, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Community College | Flint, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Davidson-Davie Community College | Lexington, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elk Grove Unified School District | Elk Grove, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Henry Ford College | Dearborn, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lena Foundation | Louisville, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Middlesex County College | Edison, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector | West Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeastern Junior College | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tools of the Mind | Shirley, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Waterford Institute Inc | Taylorsville, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Minnesota Department of Human Services | St Paul, MN | $9,992 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Opinion Research Center | Chicago, IL | $7,763 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Camden County College | Blackwood, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Coahoma Community College & Early College High School | Clarksdale, MS | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jf Drake State Community & Technical College | Huntsville, AL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercer County Community College | West Windsor, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rowan College at Burlington County | Mt Laurel, NJ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lindsay Unified School District | Lindsay, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Action Program for Central Arkansas | Conway, AR | $5,280 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
23 of 76 (30%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 76 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $2,943,012 | $16,783 |
| 2022 | 44 | $2,063,627 | $18,342 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,469,501 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 6 | $719,903 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
29% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mdrc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 200 Vesey Street 23RD Floor, New York, NY, 10281.
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