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Macfarland Wilson 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of MACFARLAND WILSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY PA EMERGENCY | $25,000 |
| 4 PAWS RESCUE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| WELL FOR THE JOURNEY | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $12,000 |
| PHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC | $11,000 |
| DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| SOUTH WESTERN PA HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,160 |
| CAPE MAY CARES | $8,000 |
| NO LIMITS ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| SAINT LUKES YOUTH CENTER | $8,000 |
| GILCHRIST | $5,000 |
| WAYNE SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| MARIAN HOUSE | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
50 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WFWELL FOR THE JOURNEY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $66k · revenue +57%
- SLSAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +653%
- PFPHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- PRPAWS RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Chartiers believes each individual, regardless of economic status, has a right to achieve his/her highest potential and become a self-sufficient and full participating member of the community.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Maryville provides comprehensive high quality drug and alcohol addiction and co-occurring treatment services to individuals and families affected by the disease of addiction, regardless of their ability to pay.
To help all affected by addictive disease to become healthy in body, mind, and spirit.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
New hope integrated behavioral health care, inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, provides commission on the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf) and nj licensed substance use and co-occurring mental health disorder…
Authoracare collective empowers people to be active participants in their care journey, enabling them to live on their own terms through personalized support for mind, body, and spirit.
Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ambler Choral Society Inc. 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 32 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) — 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 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.
39 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. 39 of the 65 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 WELL FOR THE JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds CAPE MAY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOMING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LITTORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION CONNECTIONS RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds NEXT HARM REDUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
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: Bender Foundation Inc · The Kay Family Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Macfarland Wilson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Saint Luke's Youth Center Inc — 48% of income from government
- Asylee Women Enterprise Inc — 26% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Cape May Stage Inc — 7% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Marian House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 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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