Massachusetts · Private foundation
Mac Five Foundation Inc
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.
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $103M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Mac Five Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $18M | 75% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $15M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $8.3M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $7.9M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $7.3M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $6.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis & Elkins College | $11,750,000 | 3 | 13% |
| The Jsm Charitable Trust | $9,000,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Washington University | $8,965,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $5,600,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Teach St Louis | $2,867,500 | 5 | 27% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,642,248 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $750,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $550,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education | $530,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Biostl | $460,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mac Five Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Rogers Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mac Five Foundation Inc
- How much does Mac Five Foundation Inc give?
- Mac Five Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $17,722,660 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mac Five Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Philanthropy (19%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Mac Five Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Davis & Elkins College ($12M), The Jsm Charitable Trust ($9.0M), Washington University ($9.0M).
- Does Mac Five Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mac Five Foundation Inc 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 Mac Five Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Mac Five Foundation Inc based?
- Mac Five Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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