· Private foundation
James & Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $384k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lake County Community Foundation | $535,000 |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $355,000 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | $250,000 |
| McMullanO'Connor Family Fund | $173,959 |
| University of Mississippi Endowment | $160,000 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
88 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO7× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +45%
- CHCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $955k · revenue +37%
- MMMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $750k · revenue +149% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCAREone grant, 2017 · $500k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORYone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -69%
- TMTwo Mississippi Museumsone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Operation of a nautical history museum.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 131 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Eudora Welty Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 826CHI INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds MOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds St Leonard's Ministries ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Woodward Hines Education Foundation · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Clarks Fork Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James & Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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