· Private foundation
Macdonald Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $13,000 |
| LYDIA'S HOUSE OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS IN ACTION | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| CASA OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $3,000 |
| SEACOAST MENTAL HEALTH | $3,000 |
| WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT | $2,000 |
| SEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE | $2,000 |
| HOPE ON HAVEN HILL | $2,000 |
| END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER | $2,000 |
| PRESCOTT ARTS FESTIVAL | $2,000 |
| WAYPOINT | $2,000 |
| CROSS ROADS HOUSE INC | $2,000 |
| FARMSTEADS OF NEW ENGLAND | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WWAYPOINT4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +18%
- SRSEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE3× · 2019–2021 · $23k · revenue +23%
- GGather4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- GAGONVERNOR'S ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- ACASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
WSCA Radio (106.1 FM) is a volunteer-driven, listener-supported community radio station based in Portsmouth, NH. We broadcast eclectic, locally produced content reflecting the diversity and character of the Seacoast region. WSCA provides a…
The preservation of the Wentworth-Gardner historic house and warehouse which is located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Wentworth-Gardner historic house is a classic example of Georgian architecture from the 1700s and is listed on the…
Harbor Care's mission is to provide vital services, including housing and healthcare to all in our communities needing assistance. Our vision is one where everyone gets to live safe, stable, and healthy lives, filled with purpose, respect…
The Portsmouth Historical Society's museums and programs connect the community to our past, present and future through collections, interpretation, education and preservation.
The mission of seacoast mental health center is to provide a broad comprehensive array of high quality, effective and accessible mental health services to residents of the eastern half of rockingham county.
Fair Tide's mission is to reduce homelessness by providing Housing and support services to individuals and families in the seacoast. Through Fair Tide's permanent housing program, homeless households benefit from intensive case management…
Vision: to preserve, share and continue the american story mission: to be a welcoming, thriving, historic site and community resource that engages people of all backgrounds in our inclusive american story. values: - we value caroline…
We exist to share the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as provide shelter, food, and clothing to the poor and needy in obedience to Him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portsmouth Music & Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is End 68 Hours of Hunger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Gather ↗
- Who funds Friends of The Music Hall ↗
- Who funds WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Cross Roads House Inc ↗
- Who funds POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Farmsteads of New England Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Seacoast Community Health ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT PARK ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE ON HAVEN HILL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST NH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · The Provident Community Charitable Organization Inc · Foundation for Seacoast Health · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bartko Family Charitable Foundation · Lighthouse Credit Union Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Macdonald Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.