· Private foundation
Frederick McDonald Tr Ua
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE | $15,000 |
| EQUINOX INC | $15,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ALBANY | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| LIFEPATH | $5,000 |
| UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| REFUGEE WELCOME | $5,000 |
| HIGHER HORIZONS DEVELOPMENT CORP | $5,000 |
| IN OUR OWN VOICES | $5,000 |
| SOUTH END CHILDRENS CAFE | $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 (FY18–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- FIFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +25%
- IPINTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +140%
- EIEQUINOX INC8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RRISSEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AJALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +17%
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
Provides temporary housing and housing assistance to homeless families and singles in new york city; provides ancillary social services, food, clothing, access to medical services and finds permanent housing and jobs to those families.
The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.
We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.
Advance care alliance of new york, inc. (acany) is dedicated to providing the support and services for you or your loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability need to lead an active, healthy, and fulfilling life. acany was…
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.
African services committee's mission is to support the african community through provision of health, housing, social and legal services and advocacy to african diaspora refugees and immigrants in new york city and to provide reproductive…
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Catherine's Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. 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 37 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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 FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINOX INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ALLIANCE OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Refugee Welcome Corporation ↗
- Who funds ST PETERS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY M YOUNG JR HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds ALBANY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International 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 Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Review Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Carl E Touhey Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Gideon Lodge #140 B'Nai B'Rith Housing Foundation Inc · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) · Capital Communications Cares Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable 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 Frederick McDonald Tr Ua 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.