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Donald a Macmillan Foundation at a glance

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Donald a Macmillan 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$280kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$324k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOSE LEFT BEHIND FOUNDATION$10,000
OLD DOG HAVEN$10,000
A HOME 4 SPOT ANIMAL RESCUE$10,000
ANIMAL RESCUE RELAY$10,000
PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN$10,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%EL DORADO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 8%HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE &: $10k → 12%GOLDEN RETRIEVER CLUB OF GREATER: $5k → 14%K-9 ANGELS RESCUE: $10k → 16%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%OLD DOG HAVEN: $10k → 7%SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $10k → 9%WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 9%ANIMAL RESCUE RELAY: $10k → 11%A HOME 4 SPOT ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 13%HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE &: $5k → 12%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER: $5k → 14%OLD DOG HAVEN: $10k → 7%SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $10k → 9%A HOME 4 SPOT ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 13%HOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE &: $5k → 12%SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $10k → 9%A HOME 4 SPOT ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 13%HAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY: $10k → 12%PURRFECT PALS: $10k → 9%A HOME 4 SPOT ANIMAL RESCUE: $5k → 13%PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $10k → 9%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$185k · 6 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$185k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+73%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TL
    THOSE LEFT BEHIND FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue -56%
  • SW
    SARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +61%
  • AH
    A HOME 4 SPOT
    4× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • WH
    WOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • PP
    PURRFECT PALS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
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
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
2
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
3
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
4
Raskels Rescue
Animals
5
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
6
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
7
Washington Basset Rescue

Dog rescue

Animals
8
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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9
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
10
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
11
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
12
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue Inc; the most unlike its peers is El Dorado County Humane Society. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOSE LEFT BEHIND FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · AnimalsTHOSE LEFT BEHIND FOUNDATION INCSARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $30,000 · AnimalsSARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTERA HOME 4 SPOT: $30,000 · AnimalsA HOME 4 SPOTFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS: $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALSOLD DOG HAVEN: $20,000 · AnimalsOLD DOG HAVENWOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · AnimalsPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $10,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE RELAY: $10,000 · AnimalsHAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY: $10,000 · AnimalsSEATTLE PUREBRED DOG RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsK-9 ANGELS RESCUE: $10,000 · Animals+2 more: $10,000 · AnimalsHOMEWARD BOUND GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE &: $20,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND GO…PURRFECT PALS: $10,000 · OtherPURRFECT PALSPAWS: $10,000 · OtherPAWSGOLDEN RETRIEVER CLUB OF GREATER: $5,000 · OtherGOLDEN RETRIEVER …
Animals$245,000Other$45,000

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 budgetTHOSE LEFT BEHIND FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetSARVEY WILDLIFE CARE CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetA HOME 4 SPOT: $30,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS: $25,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOLF HAVEN INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURRFECT PALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSEATTLE PUREBRED DOG RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetK-9 ANGELS RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEl Dorado County Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Gary E Milgard Family…Petsmart Charities IncNetwork for GoodAmerican Express Foun…Seattle FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark · Petsmart Charities Inc · Network for Good · American Express Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Donald a Macmillan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald a Macmillan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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