· Private foundation
Magnolia 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of Magnolia Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Magnolia Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $74k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVA | $30,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $25,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| BEACHES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE MINISTRY INC | $3,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,750 |
| HOPE AND DELIVERANCE MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $2,000 |
| DONATIONS TO FAMILIES IN NEED | $1,342 |
| COOL EFFECT INC | $1,200 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,133 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $1,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Magnolia Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES3× · 2019–2022 · $53k · revenue +80%
- BEBeaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +31%
- CECool Effect Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
- AABILITYFIRSTone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -41%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc ↗
- Who funds Cool Effect Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds UNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Magnolia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Magnolia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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