· Private foundation
Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $600,000 |
| HORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH | $50,000 |
| THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING | $25,000 |
| CROSSLINE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| LINDNER CENTER OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WEST POINT ASSOC OF GRADUATES | $20,000 |
| FORD THEATER | $20,000 |
| SOUTH HILLS BIBLE CHAPEL | $15,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS | $11,000 |
| ARMY WEST POINT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER | $7,500 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE | $5,000 |
| THE PRAYER COVENANT | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +241%
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY4× · 2018–2025 · $331k · revenue +42%- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- AOASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE LAKESone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CACraig and Frances Lindner Center of Hopeone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
See Disclosure Above.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Center and the most unlike its peers is Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSLINE COMMUNITY CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Prayer Covenant Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Disabled Veterans Life Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Army West Point Athletic Association inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUNKER LABS NFP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Hcs Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.