· Private foundation
John J McArdle III & Joan C McArdle 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ANDOVER CENTER FOR HISTORY & CULTURE | $15,000 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $5,000 |
| BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| THE WHARTON FUND | $5,000 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC | $2,500 |
| BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $2,500 |
| ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +196%
- TATABOR ACADEMY3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +25%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE2× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- LHLAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
BREAD & ROSES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +110%- WCWINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE OF EMORY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 22 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 BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARGINAL WAY PRESERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John J McArdle III & Joan C McArdle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John J McArdle III & Joan C McArdle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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