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Maclaurin 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.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$193kReligion$50kEducation$35kRecreation & Sports$23kHuman Services$19kYouth Development$6kFood & Nutrition$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$1,250
Median grant
7
States reached
$671k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST LUTHERAN FOUNDATION$27,744
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE HHI$25,104
OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ACADAMY OF MEDICINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
MEMORY MATTERS$2,550
EARTH KIN FOUNDATION$2,500
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$2,053
TURNING POINT INC$1,250
BRADY CENTER$1,250
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER$1,250
COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY$1,250
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$1,073
SHARING RESOURCES WORLDWIDE$250
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY$136
HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION$100
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%EARTH KIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%EARTH KIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%EARTH KIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY SHELTER OF UNION COUNTY: $1k → 7%MEMORY MATTERS: $5k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $3k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $1k → 10%MEMORY MATTERS: $450 → 10%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

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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$290k · 18 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
19

Total granted

$290k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+24%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +33%
  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +50%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CS
    CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +46%
  • BC
    BUTTE COUNTY SCHOOLS RECOVERY FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • AH
    ADVENTIST HEALTH FIRE RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
5
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
6
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
8
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
9
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Earth Kin Foundation Ltd. 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 Health CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsCancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Food Pantries & AssistanceSchool Parent OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersVeteran Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-8 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr12%9%5–10yr15%9%10–20yr24%30%20–35yr9%33%35–55yr19%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr15%4%10–20yr24%49%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr19%19%55yr+

The field is 21% 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%0/35
the rest of the field
12%
3,449/28,754

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

34 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. 34 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE HHI — $103,639 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE HHITHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $61,030 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINICCHRIST LUTHERAN FOUNDATION — $38,339 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN FOUNDATION+19 more — $37,325 · Other+19 moreTURNING POINT INC — $9,750 · Human ServicesTURNING P…MEMORY MATTERS — $9,000 · Human ServicesMEMORY MA…Earth Kin Foundation LTD — $7,500 · Human ServicesEarth Kin…Union County Community Shelter — $3,750 · Human ServicesUnion Cou…CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation — $5,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $4,073 · EducationDEL MAR PINES FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION — $2,000 · EducationOPPORTUNITY GRANTED INC — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $800 · EducationHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $23,100 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $2,280 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $1,000 · PhilanthropyACADEMY OF MEDICINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 · HealthTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $5,000 · HealthADA Foundation — $1,824 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentPickles Group Inc — $1,030 · Youth DevelopmentMissions Ministries — $3,000 · ReligionHEART FOR MONROE INC — $2,500 · Religion
Other$240,333Human Services$30,000Education$27,873Philanthropy$27,380Health$13,924Youth Development$7,030Religion$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $61,030 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $23,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT INC — $9,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS — $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEarth Kin Foundation LTD — $7,500 over 3y, 84% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF MEDICINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $4,073 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnion County Community Shelter — $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMissions Ministries — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $2,280 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $2,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKELAND FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEversight — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADA Foundation — $1,824 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPickles Group Inc — $1,030 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY GRANTED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAntioch Elementary School PTO — $800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSharing Resources Worldwide Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge — $100 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.

Raymond James Charita…The Ayco Charitable F…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving 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 Maclaurin 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 45 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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