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Macneil Hollinger Foundation at a glance

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Macneil Hollinger 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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$408kArts & Culture$188kEnvironment$65kInternational$60kFood & Nutrition$15kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$520k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE -MOMENT MAGAZINE$16,500
MOSAIC THEATRE COMPANY OF DC$15,000
ASHOKA$10,000
NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FLOC - FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN INC: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$417k · 5 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$417k
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GD
    GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $237k · revenue +17%
  • WM
    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc
    3× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +44%
  • A
    ASHOKA
    5× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • Y
    YALE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CARBON RENEWAL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
2
The Actors Company Theatre Inc

The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…

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3
The City Theatre Company Inc

To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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8
Everyman Theatre Inc

Everyman theatre is a professional theatre company with a resident ensemble of artists from the baltimore/washington, dc area dedicated to producing high quality plays that are affordable and accessible to everyone. the vision of everyman…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
10
Theaterworks Inc

Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…

Arts & Culture
11
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
12
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mosaic Theater Company of Dc; the most unlike its peers is Emerson Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE: $99,927 · OtherYALECENTER FOR CARBON RENEWAL: $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CARBON RENEWALYALE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF DRAMA: $20,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF DRAMAYALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA: $20,000 · OtherYALE SCHOOL OF DRAMAYALE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE -MOMENT MAGAZINE: $16,500 · OtherCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE -MOMENT MAGAZ…MOSAIC THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 · OtherMOSAIC THEATRE COMPANYYALE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYSOME INC: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $237,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOLA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $10,000 · EducationWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Th…MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC THEATER CO…NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL THEATRE …EN GARDE ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureASHOKA: $60,000 · InternationalASHOKACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$266,427Education$247,000Arts & Culture$116,500International$60,000Environment$40,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Human Services$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $237,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetASHOKA: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Macneil Hollinger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macneil Hollinger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Macneil Hollinger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Macneil Hollinger 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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