GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Mortgage Bankers Association

Washington, DC · EIN 36-1505650. Reported 89 grants totalling $1,546,008 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

45organizations funded
$12,500median reported grant
$1,546,008granted, 2020-2023
59%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 15% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $76,975. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
51 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Homefree USA IncRiverdale, MD$231,200442023
Mba Opens Doors FoundationWashington, DC$177,958442023
N a a C P Legal Defense and Educational Fund IncNew York, NY$100,000222021
National Association of Real Estate BrokersLanham, MD$100,000442023
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$92,500332023
Convention of P E Church of the Diocese of WashingtonWashington, DC$65,000442023
Lenders OneSt Louis, MO$50,000442023
National Fair Housing AllianceWashington, DC$50,000442023
National Hbcus Business Deans Roundtable IncLisle, IL$50,000442023
National Housing Conference IncWashington, DC$50,000332022
National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America IncOrlando, FL$45,000332022
National Community Reinvestment Coalition IncWashington, DC$42,500442023
Homeownership Council of AmericaWashington, DC$40,000442023
Urban InstituteWashington, DC$40,000442023
Admin Awards LLCGarland, TX$39,850332023
Fannie Mae - Wall Street PrepWashington, DC$25,500112021
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association IncChicago, IL$25,000222022
Project Destined IncWashington, DC$25,000112020
Prostate Cancer FoundationSanta Monica, CA$25,000112020
Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$25,000112021
Congressional Sports for CharityAlexandria, VA$20,000222022
Convergence Memphis IncMemphis, TN$20,000112020
National Urban League IncNew York, NY$20,000222021
Childrens Hospital FoundationWashington, DC$17,500112023
NfxDetroit, MI$15,000222022
Ohio Mortgage Bankers AssociationTwinsburg, OH$15,000112021
Up for Growth Action IncWashington, DC$13,500112021
Tn Housing Development AgencyNashville, TN$12,500112021
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing ArtsVienna, VA$12,000222023
Cultural Outreach Solutions LLCOrlando, FL$10,000112020
The Relatives IncCharlotte, NC$10,000112022
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CA$10,000112023
Velvet Suite IncReston, VA$7,500112020
American Society of Association ExecutivesWashington, DC$6,000112020
Consumer Federation of America IncWashington, DC$6,000112022
Hhs Carefund FoundationDripping Spgs, TX$6,000112022
Womens CenterVienna, VA$5,500112022
Andrew J Young Foundation IncAtlanta, GA$5,000112020
Habitat for Humanity International IncAmericus, GA$5,000112020
Imagine An AnswerAnnapolis, MD$5,000112020
National Association of NeighborhoodsWashington, DC$5,000112020
National Associaton of Hispanic Real Estate ProfessionalsSan Diego, CA$5,000112020
National Low Income Housing Coalition and Low Income HousingWashington, DC$5,000112020
Samaritan Ministry of Greater WashingtonWashington, DC$5,000112020
Some IncWashington, DC$5,000112020

20 of 45 (44%) 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 45 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.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 orgs
Community Improvement
5 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
2 orgs
Civil Rights
1 org
Social Science
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202031$430,038$10,000
202121$419,524$15,000
202222$393,675$11,250
202315$302,771$14,850

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

37% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. 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.

District of Columbia
$579K
Maryland
$429K
New York
$145K
Illinois
$75K
Florida
$55K
Missouri
$50K
Texas
$46K
Virginia
$45K

Down to the city

Washington, DC
$579K
Riverdale, MD
$231K
New York, NY
$145K
Lanham, MD
$100K
Baltimore, MD
$92K
Orlando, FL
$55K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund19 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America13 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
  4. 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 Mortgage Bankers Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 1919 M Street Nw 5TH Fl, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 36-1505650 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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