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John N & Marilyn P McConnell Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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John N & Marilyn P McConnell Charitable 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$661k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.5MEducation$2.7MArts & Culture$1.9MScience & Tech$403kYouth Development$150kPublic Benefit$76kPhilanthropy$73kReligion$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $302k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$260k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMS$661,023
DENISON UNIVERSITY$480,548
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$404,852
MAYO CLINIC$202,426
MRI GLOBAL$100,000
UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY$10,000
THE LEARNING ALLIANCE$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$10,000
SANTA FE OPERA ANNUAL FUND$9,371
CLEVELAND CLINIC OF INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION$5,000
MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–19, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $50 → 22%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $5k → 12%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $4k → 12%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%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

NH
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 32 repeat orgs$770k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
73

Total granted

$8.5M
$770k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+62%

Still filing today

59%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +13%
  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $654k · revenue +226%
  • M
    MRIGlobal
    4× · 2020–2024 · $398k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $149k · revenue +634%
  • YE
    YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS
    one grant, 2020 · $102k
  • ES
    EMPOWER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -6%
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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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
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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8
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autry Museum of the American West; the most unlike its peers is The Link Foundation Co Chemung Canal Trust Company. 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

58 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. 58 of the 109 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
42/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMS: $2,000,765 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMSMAYO CLINIC: $1,800,564 · OtherMAYO CLINICSTAND TOGETHER: $198,023 · Other+69 more: $629,199 · Other+69 moreDENISON UNIVERSITY: $1,486,745 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $653,858 · EducationINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE F…THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $149,321 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INCEMPOWER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100,000 · Education+7 more: $101,805 · EducationKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,237,703 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FO…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $176,582 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE …THE SANTA FE OPERA: $117,302 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERA+4 more: $85,000 · Arts & CultureMAYO CLINIC: $625,367 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,043 · Health+8 more: $925 · HealthMRIGlobal: $398,267 · Science & Tech+1 more: $5,000 · Science & TechUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $70,088 · Philanthropy+4 more: $5,500 · PhilanthropyAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $75,000 · Social Science+1 more: $100 · Social Science
Other$4,628,551Education$2,491,729Arts & Culture$1,616,587Health$654,335Science & Tech$403,267Philanthropy$75,588Social Science$75,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $1,486,745 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,237,703 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $653,858 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $625,367 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMRIGlobal: $398,267 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $176,582 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $149,321 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $117,302 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $71,188 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $70,088 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $53,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,043 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR MONTE DEL SOL CHARTER SCHOOL: $19,711 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetSenior Resource Association Inc: $12,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,031 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INC: $5,061 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATHENA SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Care Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL EQUESTRIANS OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINK FOUNDATION CO Chemung Canal Trust Company: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $50 over 1y, 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 DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MRIGlobal ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR MONTE DEL SOL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Senior Resource Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 330 DANIEL WEBSTER COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ATHENA SOCIETY 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.

Indian River Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…Archie S Wingfield Jr…John's Island Communi…Greater Kansas City C…The Kahle Foundation …The John's Island Fou…Bernard a Egan Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…Minotty Family Founda…Grand Harbor Communit…United Way of Indian …
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Kahle Foundation Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Minotty Family Foundation · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · United Way of Indian River County 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 N & Marilyn P McConnell Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John N & Marilyn P McConnell Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Visiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 109 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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