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Mako Foundation

Name: Mako Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

152
grants reported: $1.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Center for Public Interest Research3 grants · $60,000
International Medical Corps2 grants · $50,000
Southern Poverty Law Center2 grants · $50,000
Natural Resources Defense Council2 grants · $50,000
Partners in Health2 grants · $50,000
Black Farmer Fund3 grants · $45,000
Proteus Fund - Piper Fund3 grants · $45,000
Proteus Fund - Rise Together Fund3 grants · $45,000
Streetsquash2 grants · $40,000
Type Media Center (Fka the Nation Institute)2 grants · $40,000

Giving over time

$434,600

2022

$317,726

2023

$383,100

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 152 grants.

$25,000
International Medical Corps · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Partners in Health · Boston, MA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Community Vision Capital & Consulting (Fka Northern California Community Lo · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
International Medical Corps · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Naral Pro-Choice America Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Partners in Health · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$25,000
Southern Poverty Law Center · Montgomery, AL · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Center for Public Interest Research · Boston, MA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Movement Voter Fund Via Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Streetsquash · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Type Media Center (Fka the Nation Institute) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Center for Public Interest Research · Boston, MA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Streetsquash · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Type Media Center (Fka the Nation Institute) · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Center for Public Interest Research · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Streetsquash · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$20,000
Type Media Center Inc (Fka the Nation Institute) · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$16,500
First Nations Development Institute (for Covid 19 Emergency Relief Fund) · Longmont, CO · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Black Farmer Fund · York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Proteus Fund - Piper Fund · Waltham, MA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Proteus Fund - Rise Together Fund · Amherst, MA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Black Farmer Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Doctors Without Borders USA · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Proteus Fund - Piper Fund · Amherst, MA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Proteus Fund - Rise Together Fund · Amherst, MA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Black Farmer Fund · Bronx, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Doctors Without Borders USA · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Proteus Fund - Piper Fund · Amherst, MA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$15,000
Proteus Fund - Rise Together Fund · Amherst, MA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Association for Macular Diseases · York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Bard College - Bard Prison Initiative · Annandale, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Center for Public Integrity · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Collective Power for Reproductive Justice · Boston, MA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Community Vision Capital & Consulting (Fka Northern California Community Lo · Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
First Nations Development Institute · Longmont, CO · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Hudson River Housing · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (Ilrc) · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness - Campaign To Save the Boundary Wat · Ely, MN · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Partners for Justice · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Regional Food Bank of the Ne (Fkafood Bank of the Hudson Valley) · Latham, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation (Fka Naral Pro-Choice America Found · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Association for Macular Diseases · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Center for Public Integrity · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Collective Power for Reproductive Justice · Boston, MA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Community Vision Capital & Consulting · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness - Campaign To Save the Boundary Wat · Ely, MN · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Center for Public Integrity · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Collective Power for Reproductive Justice (Fka Civil Liberties and Public P · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Democracy Now · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Food Bank for New York City · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness -Campaign To Save the Boundary Wate · Ely, MN · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$10,000
Share Our Strength · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Alliance for Justice · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Camp Nebagamon · Nebagamon, WI · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Family of Woodstock · Kingston, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Go Doc Go · New Paltz, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Hampshire College Trustees · Amherst, MA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Jobs With Justice Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Missouri Democracy Education Fund Via Amalgamated Charitable Foundation (Fs · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Rethinking Schools · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Scenic Hudson · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
University of Michigan - New England Literature Program (Nelp) · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Wallkill Valley Land Trust · New Paltz, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Alliance for Justice · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Camperships for Nebagamon · Lk Nebagamon, WI · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Go Doc Go · New Paltz, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Hampshire College Trustees · Amherst, MA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (Ilrc) · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Jobs With Justice Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Partners for Justice · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Rethinking Schools · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
University of Michigan - New England Literature Program (Nelp) · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Wallkill Valley Land Trust · New Paltz, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Camperships for Nebagamon · East Troy, WI · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Go Doc Go · New Paltz, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Hampshire College Trustees · Amherst, MA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (Ilrc) · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Jobs With Justice Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Long Island Pine Barrens Society · Wading River, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Perennial · Saint Louis, MO · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Rethinking Schools · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
San Francisco School · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Shared Roots Education Fund Tides Foundation As Fiscal Sponsor · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
University of California at Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
University of Michigan - New England Literature Program (Nelp) · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Wallkill Valley Land Trust · New Paltz, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$5,000
Wamc Northeast Public Radio · Albany, NY · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$3,000
Tides Center - for the Many Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$3,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support/annual gift
$3,000
Tides Center - for the Many Educational Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support/annual gift
$2,500
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater · Beacon, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$2,500
Mohonk Preserve · Gardiner, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$2,500
Theatre for a New Audience (Tfana) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support/annual gift
$2,500
Theatre for a New Audience Inc (Tfana) · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support/annual gift

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