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Magee Christian Education Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$318k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$17,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Magee Christian Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$318k0%
FY202322$278k14%
FY202219$254k11%
FY202121$264k14%
FY202023$268k17%
FY201922$264k18%
FY201827$273k19%
FY201725$235kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MReligion$472kHuman Services$30kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$9k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$112,00080%
Methodist Theological School in Ohio$112,00080%
Drew University$112,00080%
Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church$112,0008n/a
Iliff School of Theology$107,0008n/a
Southern California School Of Theology$102,00070%
Gammon Theological Seminary$85,00043%
United Theological Seminary$50,0004n/a
Transylvania University$40,00080%
Lexington Theological Seminary$32,0003n/a
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Magee Christian Education Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$112,00080%
Methodist Theological School in Ohio$112,00080%
Drew University$112,00080%
Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church$112,0008n/a
Iliff School of Theology$107,0008n/a
Southern California School Of Theology$102,00070%
Gammon Theological Seminary$85,00043%
United Theological Seminary$50,0004n/a
Transylvania University$40,00080%
Lexington Theological Seminary$32,0003n/a
Ohio Wesleyan University$30,00030%
Cornelia Connely Center for Education$30,0001n/a
Asbury Theological Seminary$20,00020%
Vanderbilt University$10,00010%
Bethany Spring Retreat Center$10,0001n/a
Georgetown College$10,00020%
Kentucky Wesleyan College$10,00010%
Campbellsville University Inc$8,00040%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Magee Christian Education Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $112,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Theological School in Ohio: $112,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDrew University: $112,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California School Of Theology: $102,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGammon Theological Seminary: $85,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTransylvania University: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Wesleyan University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAsbury Theological Seminary: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Wesleyan College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Wabash College · Verizon Foundation · Mary Bigler Hinkle Tw Scholarship · Charles G Pearl Scholarship Fund 006961 · Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr · John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · Woldenberg Foundation · American Association for the Advancement of Science · Council of Independent Colleges · Goldring Family 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.

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How do I get to Magee Christian Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Magee Christian Education 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.

About Magee Christian Education Foundation

How much does Magee Christian Education Foundation give?
Magee Christian Education Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $318,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Magee Christian Education Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (76%), Religion (22%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Magee Christian Education Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Duke University ($112k), Methodist Theological School in Ohio ($112k), Drew University ($112k).
Does Magee Christian Education Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Magee Christian Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Magee Christian Education Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Ibm International Foundation, Wabash College.
Where is Magee Christian Education Foundation based?
Magee Christian Education Foundation is based in KY.

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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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