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Macarthur Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Macarthur Family Charitable 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.

$226k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$823kArts & Culture$255kEducation$221kPublic Benefit$101kCivil Rights$56kHealth$20kRecreation & Sports$10kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$71,793
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC$20,000
VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND$20,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR THE CIVICS CENTER$20,000
NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND$20,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION$17,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS$10,000
HOPE REICHBACH FUND$5,000
SUN VALLEY WRITER'S CONFERENCE$4,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$3,000
JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$3,000
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB$3,000
THE WATERMILL CENTER$2,700
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY$2,600
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON$2,440
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $1k → 6%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

VT
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
DC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$414k · 33 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
25

Total granted

$414k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+52%

Still filing today

61%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +7%
  • SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +76%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +63%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
2
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture
5
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…

Arts & Culture
6
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
7
The Royal National Theatre

Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…

Arts & Culture
8
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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9
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
10
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc

The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global…

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc

The perelman performing arts center creates connections by cultivating bonds between extraordinary artists and communities with exemplary performances in active dialogue across the arts in our flexible intimate spaces, inviting…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

49 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. 49 of the 71 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
37/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $737,153 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+3 more: $5,750 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $65,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERACOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR THE CIVICS CENTER: $60,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR…IGNITE NATIONAL: $60,000 · OtherIGNITE NATIONALHOPE REICHBACH FUND: $18,200 · OtherHOPE REICHBACH FUNDTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT: $14,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: $12,500 · Other+27 more: $75,419 · Other+27 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $29,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS…VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · EducationVIRGINIA NEW MAJOR…+2 more: $1,250 · EducationMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $32,000 · Arts & CultureMetropoli…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $17,230 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN C…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK …MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $10,476 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN…GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $7,120 · Arts & CultureGUILD HAL…ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $6,974 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOU…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,227 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,165 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $4,250 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $25,985 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $10,000 · Civil RightsVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · Community ImprovementHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $8,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $500 · Health
Philanthropy$742,903Other$305,619Education$250,250Arts & Culture$124,927Civil Rights$55,000Community Improvement$31,000Health$8,500

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $737,153 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $17,230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT: $14,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $10,476 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $7,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $6,974 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,227 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,165 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $3,940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3,595 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND: $3,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVINEYARD THEATRE AND WORKSHOP CENTER INC: $3,169 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $3,126 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $1,370 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRATTLESTICK PRODUCTIONS INC: $820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOHO PLAYHOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute: $250 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Tides FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Tides Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Macarthur Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macarthur Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Macarthur Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Macarthur Family Charitable Foundation 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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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