· Private foundation
JM McDonald Foundation Inc
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 $10k149 grants · $726k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $642k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CORTLAND | $75,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC | $60,000 |
| LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IND C O CORTLAND MEMO | $50,000 |
| SKANEATELES RECREATIONAL CHARITABLE TR | $30,000 |
| CORTLANDVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $25,000 |
| RIVER HOSPITAL INC | $25,000 |
| PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $25,000 |
| THE WILD CENTER | $25,000 |
| NORTH LONDON MILL PRESERVATION INC | $25,000 |
| OPERATION WARM INC | $20,000 |
| ESSEX FOOD HUB INC | $20,000 |
| SCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
361 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2025, 222 since wound down; 64 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k 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
- CRCORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC5× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +13%
- LHLIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC3× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +32%
- NHNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS5× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CMCORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION IND C O CORTLANDone grant, 2020 · $400k
- VUVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY - BILL WILKERSON CENTER FORone grant, 2017 · $150k
- CECOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOC IN THE STATE OF NEW YORKone grant, 2018 · $120k
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.
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.
The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
The corporation was formed to operate various programs to assist in the development of the mentally and physically disabled. we assist the people we serve through a continuum of service that fosters community participation and personal…
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…
The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…
To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.
A public library with locations in catskill and palenville, new york providing reference materials and various on-line services.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
To provide quality health care services by operating diagnostic and treatment facilities pursuant to article 28 of the public health law of new york state. the center operates clinics in dunkirk, new york, jamestown, new york, gowanda, new…
Crouse community center, inc is a residential health care facility whose mission is to provide long term health care, rehabilitation, and adult day care services to area residents requiring 24 hour skilled nursing residential health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brown Bag Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
659 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. 659 of the 760 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CORTLAND SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LIME HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds North London Mill Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds YWCA CORTLAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF HUMPHREYS CO INC ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER AT ITHACA ↗
- Who funds CORTLANDVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC ↗
- Who funds MELMARK INC ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS ↗
- Who funds Post 1 Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIVER HOSPITAL 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 · Charles R Wood Foundation · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Adirondack Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · The Polisseni Foundation 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 JM McDonald 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 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.