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Macalester College

Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.

$78M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$814kCommunity Improvement$381kEducation$348kEnvironment$115kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $128,653, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,702,345 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,573,692 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS$50,203
MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL$35,250
Individual grant recipient$28,200
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HONOR THE EARTH: $115k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $13k → 11%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $19k → 6%UNION COLLEGE: $81k → 12%MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $14k → 14%THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $95k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS: $51k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WI- RIVER FALLS: $46k → 10%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $17k → 7%COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $32k → 10%OBERLIN COLLEGE: $28k → 13%WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $17k → 12%WHITMAN COLLEGE: $11k → 13%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $72k → 23%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $49k → 12%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $115k → 23%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $38k → 11%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%UNION COLLEGE: $13k → 12%THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $54k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS: $50k → 9%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $52k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 23%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS: $44k → 9%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $29k → 23%AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS: $15k → 9%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%UNION PARK DISTRICT COUNCIL: $10k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $61k → 14%MACRO CONSORTIUM: $44k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $42k → 14%MACRO CONSORTIUM: $39k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $36k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $36k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $35k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $30k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $29k → 14%MACRO CONSORTIUM: $28k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $28k → 14%MACALESTER GROVELAND COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $15k → 14%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $38k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
CT
MO
VA
DC
LA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +16%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue +16%
  • UC
    UNION COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $94k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • HONOR THE EARTH
    one grant, 2023 · $115k · revenue -59%
  • Washington and Lee Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $49k · revenue +134%
  • BU
    BETHEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $38k · revenue -1%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
11
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
12
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The College of Wooster; the most unlike its peers is District Council 13 Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $149,992 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONA…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $149,499 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNION COLLEGE: $93,757 · EducationUNION COLLEGEAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $60,265 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYWashington and Lee University: $48,711 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $37,657 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITYTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $32,252 · EducationOberlin College: $27,521 · Education+3 more: $47,446 · Education+3 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $206,811 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE: $152,652 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDA…Individual grant recipient: $111,596 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDistrict Council 13 Inc: $70,000 · OtherDistrict Council 13 Inc+2 more: $29,197 · OtherMacalester-Groveland Community Council: $311,275 · Community ImprovementMacalester-Groveland …HONOR THE EARTH: $114,810 · EnvironmentSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $14,032 · Arts & CultureMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$647,100Other$570,256Community Improvement$311,275Environment$114,810Arts & Culture$24,032

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 budgetMacalester-Groveland Community Council: $311,275 over 9y, 34% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $149,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $149,499 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $114,810 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNION COLLEGE: $93,757 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDistrict Council 13 Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $60,265 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $48,711 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $37,657 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $32,252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $27,521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $19,165 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $17,201 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $14,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $11,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Macalester College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macalester College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 21 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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