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McDevitt Lindell Family Foundation at a glance

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McDevitt Lindell Family 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.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$476kEducation$396kArts & Culture$170kHuman Services$135kReligion$100kRecreation & Sports$79kHousing & Shelter$50kInternational$40k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE$100,000
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$25,000
CRESCENT COVE$25,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CRESCENT COVE: $25k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $25k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $25k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $25k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $10k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
SD
IN
CA
TN
NC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +84% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+84%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $410k · revenue +99%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $195k · revenue ×23
  • CC
    CRESCENT COVE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • ML
    MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTH MANKATO
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +84%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +99%
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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3
Simon's Fund

To prevent sudden cardiac arrest and death in children, teens and young adults.

Health
4
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
5
The Sir Philip Sidney Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Smd Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Society of Univ Surgeons Foundation
Education
8
Lungevity Foundation Inc

Lungevity's vision is a world where no one dies of lung cancer. lungevity foundation is firmly committed to making an immediate impact on increasing quality-of-life and survivorship of people with lung cancer by accelerating research into…

Health
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
11
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…

Health
12
The Segerstrom Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Medical Student Missions Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $410,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL…SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 · HealthSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONALTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $105 · HealthSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $195,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWER…JDRF - MN: $160,000 · OtherJDRF - MNST JUDE: $100,000 · OtherST JUDEMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTH MANKATO: $75,000 · OtherMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTH MANKAT…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $25,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1DUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $16,000 · Other+3 more: $14,951 · OtherCRESCENT COVE: $110,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$470,105Education$395,000Other$390,951Human Services$110,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Philanthropy$30,000

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $410,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $110,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PETER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,125 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMEDICAL STUDENT MISSIONS INC: $105 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 McDevitt Lindell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDevitt Lindell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 18 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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