How much does John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation give?

John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $175,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Environment (10%).

Who are John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: San Juan Community Home Trust ($170k), Bowdoin College ($170k), Sandhills Community College Foundation Inc ($90k).

Does John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a Koenig, Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.

Where is John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation based?

John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation is based in MA.

John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation

John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$379kHousing & Shelter$201kEnvironment$134kFood & Nutrition$124kHuman Services$85kPhilanthropy$81kAnimals$57kInternational$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $71k
$10k–50k6 grants · $105k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$786k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
San Juan Community Home Trust	$35,000
Bowdoin College	$25,000
Cor Unum Meal Center	$15,000
Drew School	$10,000
Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Cente	$10,000
Sandhill Community College Foundati	$10,000
Cape Islands Veterans Outreach Cent	$6,500
University of Minnesota Foundation	$5,000
Concord Land Conservation Trust	$5,000
New England Aquarium	$5,000
Cape Abilities	$5,000
Mass Audubon Society	$5,000
Family Promise of Moore County	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
Sudbury Valley Trustees	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 35 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+167%

Still filing today

74%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

BC
Bowdoin College
7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +59%
JL
JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
7× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +93%
SV
SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +226%

Funded once

SF
San Francisco State University
one grant, 2023 · $25k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $15k
SS
SPRING STREET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

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.

04Its field

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.

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment

Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy

The San Juan Preservation Trust

Land conservation and education in the san juan archipelago.

Environment

Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Inc

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…

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Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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Aquidneck Island Land Trust

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.

Environment

Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

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…

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Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment

The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment

Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$516,000Education$248,000Housing & Shelter$170,000Environment$157,000Human Services$113,500Animals$57,000Philanthropy$50,000

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.

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.

Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a KoenigNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John F & Dorothy H Magee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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