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Mackesy Family 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$11MHuman Services$2.2MRecreation & Sports$1.7MPhilanthropy$462kHealth$172kInternational$100kEnvironment$66kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $545k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM & MARY FOUNDATION$1,343,000
GRAHAM WINDHAM$633,000
US SQUASH$250,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$170,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$125,000
IMPACT THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION$90,000
DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION$60,000
LEAD AFRICA$50,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$50,000
MAINSPRINGS$25,000
GRASSROOT SOCCER$21,250
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$10,000
LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE$10,000
DESTINATION COLLEGE$10,000
SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $707k → 20%SQUASH HAVEN: $500 → 12%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $633k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $460k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $260k → 20%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $10k → 9%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $120k → 20%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $5k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $5k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $5k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $5k → 9%BUNDLES OF JOY: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NH
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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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 20 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
28

Total granted

$15M
$955k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-1%

Still filing today

95%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • WM
    William & Mary Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +129%
  • GW
    GRAHAM WINDHAM
    5× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +16%
  • BS
    BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • GW
    GRAHAM WINDHAM OPERATING ACCOUNT
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • US
    UNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS
    one grant, 2020 · $235k
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +24%

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
4
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Soccer Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bronxville Historical Conservancy 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsCancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr15%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr14%1%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr15%70%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/40
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,428

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.

04the grantee network

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 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
24/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

William & Mary Foundation — $7,425,202 · EducationWilliam & Mary FoundationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $1,400,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL — $813,219 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $450,000 · Education+6 more — $461,541 · EducationGRAHAM WINDHAM — $2,180,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WINDHAM+3 more — $31,000 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY — $475,947 · OtherTHE COLLEGE…GRAHAM WINDHAM OPERATING ACCOUNT — $250,000 · OtherGRAHAM WIND…US SQUASH — $250,000 · OtherUS SQUASHUNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS — $235,000 · OtherUNITED STAT…OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE F…VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION MENS — $100,000 · OtherVIRGINIA AT…THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY NOTE LORD BOTETOURT AUCTION — $99,300 · OtherTHE COLLEGE…+20 more — $186,150 · Other+20 moreUNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOC INC — $925,000 · Recreation & SportsSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 · Recreation & Sports+5 more — $78,750 · Recreation & SportsTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $215,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACT THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC — $100,000 · InternationalLAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Education$10,549,962Human Services$2,211,000Other$1,696,397Recreation & Sports$1,063,750Philanthropy$455,500International$100,000Environment$66,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation — $7,425,202 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM — $2,180,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $1,400,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SQUASH RACQUETS ASSOC INC — $925,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL — $813,219 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $250,121 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $215,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD Africa — $135,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetJBFC INC DBA MAINSPRINGSJBFC — $100,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetOUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetIMPACT THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC — $55,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC — $41,420 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINATION COLLEGE — $30,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $21,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity Squash Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC — $4,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCKS OF LOVE INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENT LAND TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBronxville Historical Conservancy Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…First Eagle Investmen…Andrew M Paul Family …The Nagle Family Foun…Marilynn and John Hil…Steven a and Marianne…Viking Global Foundat…Jewish Communal FundEsmond Nissim Foundat…The Kestrel FoundationFairfield County's Co…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY26.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · First Eagle Investments Foundation · Andrew M Paul Family Foundation · The Nagle Family Foundation · Marilynn and John Hill Foundation Inc · Steven a and Marianne M Mills Charitable Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Esmond Nissim Foundation Inc Co Bosworth Gray & Fuller Esq · The Kestrel Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc

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 Mackesy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mackesy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mackesy Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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