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Magiesu 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
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.

Religion$102kArts & Culture$35kHealth$28kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$25kPhilanthropy$7kAnimals$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$237k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH$12,000
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE$5,000
GOODMAN THEATRE$3,500
ENCHANTED BACKPACK$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GUIDED EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%NATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%FARM OF THE CHILD: $300 → 13%CANCER FREE KIDS: $200 → 9%ENCHANTED BACKPACK: $5k → 7%LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS: $1k → 8%ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%NATIONAL HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $41k → 7%LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS: $500 → 8%SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $10k → 14%NATIONAL HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $30k → 7%ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%NATIONAL HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $12k → 7%ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%FRACTURED ATLAS: $1k → 17%ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $5k → 7%ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%SESAME WORKSHOP: $1k → 17%ST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC PARISH: $5k → 7%SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $5k → 14%ASPCA: $100 → 17%ST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC PARISH: $5k → 7%SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $5k → 14%ST ISSAC CHURCH: $3k → 7%ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY HOUSE HINSDALE: $3k → 7%SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $5k → 14%WELNESS HOUSE OF HINSDALE: $2k → 7%ENCHANTED BACKPACK: $2k → 14%MORTON ARBORETUM: $170 → 7%AIDS FOUNDATION OF CHICAGO: $500 → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $200 → 14%CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 14%BROOKFIELD ZOO: $108 → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $5k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $5k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $4k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $4k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE: $4k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE: $4k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $3k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $3k → 14%GOODMAN THEATRE: $2k → 14%ST LUKE CHURCH: $1k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 10 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$219k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

60%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureHealthEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +35%
  • EB
    ENCHANTED BACKPACK
    2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +100%
  • Chicago Zoological Society
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SI
    ST ISSAC CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSE HINSDALE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • WH
    WELNESS HOUSE OF HINSDALE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

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
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Theatre Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCH: $88,000 · OtherST ISAAC JOGUES CHURCHSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $25,000 · OtherSOS CHILDRENS VILLAGENATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATIONGOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INC: $23,311 · OtherGOODMAN THEATRE GROUP INCST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC PARISH: $10,000 · OtherST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC PARISH+5 more: $8,599 · OtherILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POL…CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $9,325 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,250 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureENCHANTED BACKPACK: $7,000 · PhilanthropyChicago Zoological Society: $5,108 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $170 · EnvironmentAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $500 · HealthCancerFree KIDS: $200 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 · HealthFarm of the Child Inc: $300 · International
Other$179,910Public Benefit$25,000Arts & Culture$11,575Philanthropy$7,000Animals$5,208Environment$1,670Health$900International$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $9,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENCHANTED BACKPACK: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $5,108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm of the Child Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancerFree KIDS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× 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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Magiesu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Magiesu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Magiesu Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Magiesu 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 23 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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