Florida · Private foundation
Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $1.5M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $541k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.0M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami | $3,175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Open Door Health Center Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Caring for Miami Inc | $191,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Children's Bereavement Center Inc | $157,500 | 6 | 3% |
| A CHANCE FOR THERAPY Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hearing Research Institute | $150,000 | 6 | 68% |
| The Sundari Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Meharry Medical College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc
- How much does Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc give?
- Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $1,505,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Education (32%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Miami ($3.2M), Open Door Health Center Inc ($300k), Caring for Miami Inc ($192k).
- Does Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc based?
- Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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