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MacMahon Family Charitable 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.

$661k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$5.0MHealth$2.1MFood & Nutrition$39kHuman Services$36kReligion$17kArts & Culture$14kPhilanthropy$8kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$12,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$350,000
KENT PLACE SCHOOL$150,000
CHATHAM DAY SCHOOL INC$37,500
PINGRY CORPORATION$27,500
SETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL$25,000
ELON UNIVERSITY$20,000
SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY$17,500
MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL$12,500
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$10,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$2,000
GROW CHURCH INC$1,000
BOSOM BUDDIES OF NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORA$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY$1,000
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC$500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%LIFE CAMP INC: $4k → 4%LIFE CAMP INC: $2k → 4%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

IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
MO
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 22 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$6.8M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+1%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • SP
    SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +4%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +56%
  • KP
    KENT PLACE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $333k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • LP
    LILY PEARL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -96%
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • WI
    WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
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
7
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Peter's University and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Community Food PantriesChristian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 63 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr11%54%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%1%35–55yr11%73%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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%0/44
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,248

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 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY — $4,139,700 · EducationSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITYUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCKENT PLACE SCHOOL — $333,000 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOL+12 more — $402,500 · Education+12 moreFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $1,682,500 · HealthFoundation for Morristown …+4 more — $30,000 · HealthSETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $150,000 · OtherOPERATION HOLIDAY INC — $17,500 · OtherST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $10,000 · Other+16 more — $42,000 · OtherINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $32,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $4,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionPaper Mill Playhouse — $14,000 · Arts & CultureLIFE CAMP INC — $5,710 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE — $500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $8,000 · Philanthropy
Education$5,225,200Health$1,712,500Other$237,000Food & Nutrition$39,000Arts & Culture$14,000Human Services$8,710Philanthropy$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY — $4,139,700 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $1,682,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL — $333,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetElon University — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM DAY SCHOOL — $64,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $60,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL — $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLILY PEARL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE PINGRY CORPORATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOLIDAY INC — $17,500 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse — $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAMP INC — $5,710 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST PETERS ORPHANAGE INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC — $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORHAM PARK MEMORIAL FIRST AID SQUAD INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSOM BUDDIES OF NEW JERSEY — $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC — $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.

Community Foundation …Chubb Charitable Foun…Verizon FoundationBristol-Myers Squibb …The Lazard Charitable…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The McJ Amelior Found…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Robert Wood Johns…The Fournier Family F…Morgan Stanley Global…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ31× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The McJ Amelior Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Fournier Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 MacMahon Family Charitable 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 · 100%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
  • Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • St Peters Orphanage Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
  • Morristown-Beard School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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