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D T McNeill Foundation at a glance

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D T McNeill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$167kReligion$21kYouth Development$9kRecreation & Sports$7kHealth$5kFood & Nutrition$4kEnvironment$3kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$608k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Augusta Preparatory Day School$16,000
Mountain Education Foundation$5,750
University of Georgia Foundation$3,500
Rivermont Youth Athletic Association$3,250
University of Chattanooga Foundation$2,500
Wesleyan College$2,500
New Thomson United Methodist Church$2,500
Tivoli Theater Foundation$2,500
The Baylor School$2,500
Young Americas Foundation$2,000
The Hale Foundation$1,000
Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%University of Chattanooga Foundation: $3k → 12%The Baylor School: $10k → 14%Augusta Preparatory Day School: $16k → 7%St Simons Land Trust: $3k → 14%Berry College: $1k → 15%New Thomson United Methodist Church: $3k → 18%Golden Harvest Food Bank: $3k → 18%Wesleyan College: $3k → 23%University of Georgia Foundation: $16k → 27%Young Americas Foundation: $3k → 6%Tivoli Theater Foundation: $3k → 12%The Baylor School: $10k → 14%Augusta Preparatory Day School: $15k → 7%First United Methodist Church: $3k → 18%Golden Harvest Food Bank: $1k → 18%Wesleyan College: $3k → 23%University of Georgia Foundation: $13k → 27%Young Americas Foundation: $3k → 6%Rivermont Youth Athletic Association: $3k → 12%The Baylor School: $10k → 14%Augusta Preparatory Day School: $11k → 7%First United Methodist Church: $3k → 18%American Heart Association: $500 → 18%Wesleyan College: $3k → 23%University of Georgia Foundation: $9k → 27%Young Americas Foundation: $2k → 6%Mountain Education Foundation: $6k → 12%The Baylor School: $10k → 14%Augusta Preparatory Day School: $5k → 7%First United Methodist Church: $3k → 18%Wesleyan College: $3k → 23%University of Georgia Foundation: $8k → 27%Young Americas Foundation: $2k → 6%Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church: $4k → 12%The Baylor School: $3k → 14%Augusta Preparatory Day School: $5k → 7%First United Methodist Church: $1k → 18%Wesleyan College: $1k → 23%University of Georgia Foundation: $4k → 27%Mountain Education Foundation: $4k → 12%Win it for Wilkes Foundation: $3k → 7%Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church: $3k → 12%Signal Mountain Youth Baseball: $2k → 12%Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church: $2k → 12%Signal Mountain Youth Baseball: $2k → 12%Signal Mountain Presbyterian Church: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$202k · 11 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$202k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+29%

Still filing today

82%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +68%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +160%
  • BS
    BAYLOR SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SS
    ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -7%
  • WI
    Win it for Wilkes Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +29%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
2
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

The university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…

Education
3
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
4
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
5
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
6
Appalachian State University Foundation Inc

The appalachian state university foundation exists to support appalachian state university students, faculty, staff and community through the advancement of financial support, stewardship, growth of resources, and advocacy for the…

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7
The Hill School

The hill school prepares students from across the country and around the world for college, careers and life. within a family school environment and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, we challenge our young people to work hard; think and…

Education
8
Georgetown College

Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…

Education
9
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

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10
Wingate University

The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baylor School; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $48,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONBAYLOR SCHOOL: $42,500 · EducationBAYLOR SCHOOLWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $11,000 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLEGEMOUNTAIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $9,750 · EducationMOUNTAIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $3,500 · EducationTHE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INC: $52,000 · OtherTHE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INCSIGNAL MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherSIGNAL MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHYoung America's Foundation: $8,500 · OtherYoung America's FoundationFirst United Methodist Church: $8,500 · OtherFirst United Methodist Church+3 more: $7,500 · Other+3 moreSignal Mountain Youth Baseball: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVERMONT YOUTH ATHLETICASSOCIATION INC: $3,250 · Recreation & SportsTHE HALE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · HealthGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 · Food & NutritionST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 · Environment
Education$114,750Other$86,500Recreation & Sports$7,250Health$4,500Food & Nutrition$3,500Environment$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $42,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $9,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSignal Mountain Youth Baseball: $4,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE HALE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERMONT YOUTH ATHLETICASSOCIATION INC: $3,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Knox FoundationThe Community Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The Knox FoundationGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Knox Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization D T McNeill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D T McNeill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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