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Macdonald-Peterson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $508k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $35,000 |
| STANISLAUS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER | $30,000 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE FOR BEING HOMELESS | $30,000 |
| SOUTH CHICO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER | $27,500 |
| DRUSILLA HUFFMASTER ANDERSON PRIZE IN MUSIC | $25,000 |
| REDWOOD FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| BILLY DEFRANK LESBIAN & GAY COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO | $20,000 |
| ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BAKERRIPELEY | $20,000 |
| JOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| REACHING OUR COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
48 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations3× · 2022–2024 · $115k · revenue +63%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +47%
- EHENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- HAHouston Area Women's Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +44%
- HCHOUR CHILDREN MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $20k
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 68 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 The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CHICO COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds BILLY DEFRANK LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds Reaching Our Community ROC Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds JO CO SPAY AND NEUTER FUND ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Barnstormers Theatre ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds Murphy Outback Youth Ministries ↗
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: The Carpenter Foundation · Four Way Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 organization Macdonald-Peterson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance — 100% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Barnstormers Theatre — 8% of income from government
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.
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