· Private foundation
McDonagh Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $6,000 |
| THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT | $3,000 |
| MANSHIP ARTISTS RESIDENCE & STUDIOS | $3,000 |
| OUR NEIGHBORS' TABLE | $2,500 |
| MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIE | $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 (FY18–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ONOur Neighbors' Table Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +77%
- AHAVOW Hospice Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $22k · revenue +46%
- CACAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC4× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +173% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- MEMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +119%
THE REAL PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +248%- FIFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITYone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
To protect and conserve land and traditional land uses including farming, recreation, significant habitats, scenery, and water resources for the benefit of the public. The organization facilitates community-based conservation.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.
To foster the sustainable use of our natural and historic resources for the benefit of all generations through the conservation and stewardship of the farmlands, woodlands, and water in our region of massachusetts.
To engage in and otherwise promote the benefit of the general public the preservation and conservation of the natural resources in the greater manchester, connecticut area, including water resources, swamps, woodlands and other spaces, and…
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
To preserve the character of the village of 'sconset by conserving open land, preserving historically and/or architecturally significant structures and fostering a healthy commercial center in keeping with 'sconset's character.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds MANSHIP ARTIST RESIDENCE AND STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN TRAIL STEWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE REAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · New England Biolabs Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McDonagh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDonagh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
- Manship Artist Residence and Studios Inc: 5% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc: 2% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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