How much does Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation give?

Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $886,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Education (35%), Religion (15%).

Who are Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($1.3M), Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy ($331k), Horizon Community Church ($315k).

Does Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hcs Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation based?

Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation is based in FL.

Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation

Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$886k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$1.5MReligion$637kHuman Services$132kPublic Benefit$80kPhilanthropy$67kCommunity Improvement$65kRecreation & Sports$60kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $45k
$10k–50k10 grants · $191k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $600k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$600,000
HORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH	$50,000
CROSSLINE COMMUNITY CHURCH	$25,000
DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING	$25,000
THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION	$25,000
WEST POINT ASSOC OF GRADUATES	$20,000
ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION	$20,000
LINDNER CENTER OF HOPE	$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
TAFT ART MUSEUM	$5,000
UNIVERSTIY OF UTAH	$5,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.1M · 39 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%

+32%

Still filing today

54%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationPublic BenefitReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

CS
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +241%
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
4× · 2018–2025 · $331k · revenue +42%
HA
HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +2%

Funded once

AO
ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
one grant, 2021 · $25k
PC
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE LAKES
one grant, 2022 · $25k
CA
Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -12%

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.

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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Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Point Park University

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…

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University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports

University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education

Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Air & Space Forces Association

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…

Education

Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Center; 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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

19/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,571,500Other$1,645,050Public Benefit$391,000Education$304,000Religion$191,000Employment$70,000Recreation & Sports$59,500

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

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.

Hcs FoundationOH22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diane J and Robert a McDonald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home