· Private foundation
James & Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation
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
- $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 |
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 (FY18–24, $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 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 +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Concerts for Hope. 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 131 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 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds 826CHI 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 ↗
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: 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
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 James & Madeleine McMullan Family Foundation 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.
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.