· Private foundation
John F & Dorothy H Magee 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Juan Community Home Trust | $35,000 |
| Bowdoin College | $25,000 |
| Cor Unum Meal Center | $15,000 |
| Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Cente | $10,000 |
| Drew School | $10,000 |
| Sandhill Community College Foundati | $10,000 |
| Cape Islands Veterans Outreach Cent | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Sudbury Valley Trustees | $5,000 |
| Mass Audubon Society | $5,000 |
| Cape Abilities | $5,000 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $5,000 |
| Concord Land Conservation Trust | $5,000 |
| New England Aquarium | $5,000 |
| Family Promise of Moore County | $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 (FY19–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BCBowdoin College7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +59%
- JLJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +93%
- SVSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco State Universityone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- SSSPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Land conservation and education in the san juan archipelago.
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Conservation and preservation of land.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Katie Johnson Fellowship 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY HOME TRUST ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Moore County ↗
- Who funds DREW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Caring Hearts for Canines ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds THE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Village Improvement Society of Dennis ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KATIE JOHNSON FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD ↗
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: Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a Koenig · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gertrude a Pomeroy Charitable Trust · San Juan Island Community Foundation · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Boston 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 John F & Dorothy H Magee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Cape Cod Children's Place Inc — 47% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% 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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