· Private foundation
Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $640k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $750,000 |
| OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| CARING FOR MIAMI | $20,000 |
| BARRY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING | $20,000 |
| UM SCHOOL OF NURSING | $20,000 |
| MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FIU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UM SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| CARING FOR MIAMI | $20,000 |
| SUNDARI FNDN DBA LOTUS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| UNIVERSAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA AUTISM CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- UOUniversity of Miami4× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +66%
- TSTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +35%
- CBCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- MMMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
- TCTreasure Cay Community Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -97%
- FWFISHING WITH AMERICAS FINEST INCone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
To promote the optimal health and wellbeing of children and youth with special health care needs by providing family centered, comprehensive prevention, intervention and treatment services within a medical home environment. our vision is…
Pediatric medical clinic for uninsured and underinsured children
The mission of jessie trice community health system, inc. (the orgainzation) is to improve health equality for our diverse south florida community by providing and increasing access to quality comprehensive primary care services. please…
The organization was incorporated in 1937 and reincorporated in 1961 to provide diagnosis and treatment for individuals of all ages with speech, language and hearing disabilities through its centers in South Florida needing speech,…
Miami jewish health systems, inc. was incorporated to provide shelter for the elderly and develop social & health programs relating to their care. in addition, research & educational programs are conducted for the elderly to enhance their…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Providing oral health education and improving access to dental care for the uninsured, low-income children and families of miami-dade county.
The organization's mission is to affect positively the quality of life for persons with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities, to meet their multiple needs and those of their families, and to prevent developmental…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Haitian Studies Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% 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 18% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 58 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 University of Miami ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE FOR THERAPY Inc ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTED THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE I ↗
- Who funds 305 Pink Pack Inc ↗
- Who funds Treasure Cay Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VET INFO INC ↗
- Who funds Bit-By-Bit Inc ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GOOD HOPE EQUESTRIAN & REGENERATIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THELMA GIBSON HEALTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA 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: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Peacock Foundation Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · The Kirk Foundation · Baptist Health South Florida Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · United Way Miami Inc
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 Dr John T Macdonald Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Care Elementary School Inc — 8% of income from government
- Epilepsy Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Icu Baby Inc — 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired 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.
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