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Deborah J & Peter a Magowan Foundation Inc at a glance

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Deborah J & Peter a Magowan Foundation Inc

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.

$451k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.0MArts & Culture$545kEducation$373kHealth$269kCivil Rights$116kAnimals$76kYouth Development$61kRecreation & Sports$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION$125,000
TURNING POINT USA$100,000
CONVENTION OF STATES FOUNDATION$50,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$25,000
WAKE FOREST FUND$25,000
PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$23,000
THE CLARE BOOTHE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO FALL SHOWFINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SF$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB PALM BEACH$10,000
MAVEN PROJECT$10,000
CTR FOR VOLUNTEER & NON PROFIT LEADERSHIP-SF D BL$5,000
GRIOT ARTS$5,000
WENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$2,750
Individual grant recipient$500
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project Night Night: $1k → 10%Project Night Night: $1k → 10%The Arc of San Francisco: $20k → 10%About-Face: $2k → 10%Hospice by the Bay: $2k → 10%Presidio YMCA: $500 → 10%Presidio YMCA: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 42 repeat orgs$629k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
64

Total granted

$2.1M
$464k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

74%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $710k · revenue +304%
  • PV
    PROJECT VERITAS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $350k · revenue +158%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PK
    Project K
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • FF
    FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -80%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

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Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
7
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Friends School; the most unlike its peers is Wender Weis Foundation for Children. 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

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 114 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
54/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT USA INC: $710,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCPROJECT VERITAS: $350,000 · OtherPROJECT VERITASCITIZENS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherCITIZENS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION+77 more: $721,950 · Other+77 morePRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $52,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …MARIN ACADEMY: $33,500 · EducationMARIN ACADEMYCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT CO…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $18,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · Education+6 more: $35,943 · Education+6 moreSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRIOT ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $110,000 · Civil RightsTHE MAVEN PROJECT: $60,000 · HealthJack McGovern Coats Disease Foundation: $16,500 · HealthSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $11,000 · Health+5 more: $9,000 · HealthPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $33,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $31,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,800 · AnimalsJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $32,600 · Public Benefit+2 more: $1,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,906,950Education$346,443Arts & Culture$141,000Civil Rights$110,000Health$96,500Animals$65,800Public Benefit$34,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $710,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $350,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $110,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAVEN PROJECT: $60,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY: $33,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $32,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC SAN FRANCISCO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJack McGovern Coats Disease Foundation: $16,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $11,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Helena Hospital Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRIOT ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $3,943 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC HORTICULTURE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $2,000 over 2y, 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 San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The Stanley S Langend…Swig FoundationLisa & Douglas Goldma…United Way of the Bay…McNabb FoundationSalesforce FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
The San Francisco FoundationCA27.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Swig Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · United Way of the Bay Area · McNabb Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Deborah J & Peter a Magowan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deborah J & Peter a Magowan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Aha Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Deborah J & Peter a Magowan Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 114 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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