How much did MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Philanthropy$5.1MEducation$1.8MHealth$358kAnimals$296kArts & Culture$124kEnvironment$109kInternational$102kRecreation & Sports$80kYouth Development$70kOther$1.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k36 grants · $837k
$50k–250k12 grants · $804k
$250k+2 grants · $5.0M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$47M

Total assets

Largest grants

SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$4,703,434
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$296,553
RAPE ABUSE & INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK$100,000
RIVER CITY INCLUSIVE GYMNASTICS INC$80,000
RICHMOND WILDLIFE CENTER$80,000
WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC$73,500
HAPPY DOGGO US$73,500
SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER$73,500
GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION$73,500
CHARITY WATER$50,000
TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION$50,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$50,000
THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS INC$50,000
PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN PRE-SCHOOL$50,000
THE DREAM FOUNDATION$45,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$700k · 13 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$700k

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

Still filing today

77%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

CO
COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE
2× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +73%
WF
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
2× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +41%
PP
PEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN PRE-SCHOOL INC
2× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +38%

Funded once

WE
WINE EDUCATION COUNCIL
one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -96%
HD
HARBOR DAY SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +140%
RS
RIVERSIDE SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau

To protect and advance the social, economic, and educational interests of the farmers of santa barbara county.

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The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land & open spaces for present & future generations.

Environment

The Foundation for Santa Barbara

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Rsabg aims to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora.

Environment

Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

To support the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library.

Public Benefit

Santa Barbara Festival Ballet

To enrich the community through artistic presentations and instruction.

Arts & Culture

The Berkeley School

A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.

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Santa Barbara Middle School

To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…

Education

Santa Barbara Education Foundation

To promote community investment in public education to ensure equity and access to an innovative, world-class education that inspires confidence, competence, and creativity in every student in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education

Santa Barbara International Film

Sbiff's mission is to engage, enrich, and inspire people through the power of film. sbiff celebrates the art of cinema and provides impactful educational experiences for their local, national, and global communities.

Arts & Culture

Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

To maintain and operate zoo facilities located in santa barbara, california for the benefit and education of the general public.

Animals

Santa Barbara Cemetery Association

Cemetery association

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara School of Squash and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/49

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,929

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,059,987Education$1,752,500Other$1,307,500Health$358,000Animals$295,500Arts & Culture$124,000Environment$109,000

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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +52% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911790842 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Macdonald Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Macdonald Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Macdonald Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Macdonald Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph