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John N & Kathleen S MacDonough Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$513kEducation$337kHealth$220kInternational$100kArts & Culture$86kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$49kSocial Science$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $76k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Washington University$16,045
Barnes Jewish Hospital Foundation$10,000
Reformed University Fellowship$10,000
The International Foundation$10,000
Wake Forest University$10,000
Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation$10,000
Sts Clare Francis ECC Church$10,000
Greentree Community Church$5,000
Central Presbyterian Church$5,000
Allegro Organizational Solutions In$5,000
Ready Readers$5,000
First Congrerational Church$5,000
St Louis Children's Hospital Founda$5,000
Casa de Salud$5,000
St Louis Symphony Orchestra$4,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ABC of NC Child Development Center: $700 → 15%ABC of NC Child Development Center: $500 → 15%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Kirkwood Area Everychild Promise: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WI
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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 · 63 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

60%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
    3× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +3%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +76%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -95%
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +23%
  • EH
    EPC Hurricane Relief Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
12
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Bring Me a Book St Louis. 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

51 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. 51 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Reformed University Fellowship: $151,000 · OtherReformed University FellowshipTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $110,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIESCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $95,000 · OtherCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHThe International Foundation: $80,000 · OtherThe International FoundationGREENTREE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherGREENTREE COMMUNITY CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $38,000 · OtherCentral West End Church: $37,000 · OtherSt Luke's Hospital Foundation: $31,000 · OtherOne Family Church: $30,000 · Other+45 more: $247,773 · Other+45 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $96,045 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVER…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVE…CITY ACADEMY INC: $10,500 · EducationREADY READERS: $9,015 · EducationCornell University: $8,300 · Education+6 more: $19,700 · Education+6 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $80,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATIO…OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthOLLIE HINKLE …CASA DE SALUD: $25,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUDSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $7,500 · Health+4 more: $18,055 · Health+4 moreMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $28,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $21,500 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 · Arts & CulturePIANOS FOR PEOPLE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $40,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $10,000 · InternationalNEST INC: $5,945 · InternationalNO BARRIERS USA: $4,000 · InternationalForest Park Forever Inc: $12,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $6,500 · Environment
Other$879,773Education$223,560Health$175,555Arts & Culture$73,000Youth Development$40,500International$19,945Environment$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $96,045 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE UNLIMITED INC: $20,954 over 6y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADY READERS: $9,015 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University: $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActBeyond: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEST INC: $5,945 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $5,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $5,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS: $5,515 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL AMONG US INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWebster University: $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABC OF NC FOUNDATION: $4,040 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUO DOGS INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIANOS FOR PEOPLE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRUE THE VOTE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetClayton Community Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDrury University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING ME A BOOK ST LOUIS: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHALIFAX MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
  • Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
  • Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds READY READERS ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds ActBeyond ↗
  • Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds NEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Centene FoundationMoneta Group Charitab…The Blackbaud Giving …Fischer-Bauer-Knirps …St Louis Service Bure…The Crawford Taylor F…Trio Foundation of St…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO31.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation · St Louis Service Bureau Foundation · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

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 N & Kathleen S MacDonough Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John N & Kathleen S MacDonough Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to John N & Kathleen S MacDonough Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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