How much does Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation give?

Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $290,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Philanthropy (25%), Environment (9%).

Who are Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Child Center of Ny Inc ($75k), Billion Oyster Project Inc ($72k), Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School ($64k).

Does Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation based?

Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation is based in NY.

Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation

Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$291k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $291k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.4MPhilanthropy$750kEnvironment$268kInternational$142kArts & Culture$88kEducation$68kFood & Nutrition$57kHealth$44kOther$0

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $41k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST	$250,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$5,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY	$3,500
AUDUBON	$3,000
350ORG	$3,000
JOCOTOCO CONSERVATION FUND	$3,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK	$3,000
CARE - GIFT CENTER	$2,500
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$2,000
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES	$2,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL	$2,000
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS	$2,000
FRESH AIR FUND	$2,000
CITY HARVEST	$1,500

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

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

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 46 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+74%

Still filing today

67%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

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BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC
5× · 2018–2022 · $72k · revenue +318%
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LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL
6× · 2017–2022 · $64k · revenue +34%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +41%

Funded once

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THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC
one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +4%
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MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
one grant, 2018 · $6k
ISLES INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +158%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/51

Grantees still filing

45/51

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,028,756Philanthropy$500,500Education$144,000International$126,000Environment$104,750Food & Nutrition$32,000Health$28,000

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Katherine Macari Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

14report 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.

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