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McDonald 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.

$843k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$1.5MEducation$1.1MHealth$731kHuman Services$362kHousing & Shelter$270kInternational$231kPublic Safety & Disaster$154kCivil Rights$154kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $603k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESUITS WEST PROVINCE$100,000
THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE$56,000
SANTA TERESITA MEDICAL CENTER$56,000
NPH USA$42,000
ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY AND SCHOOL$40,000
BRIDGE TRUST$28,000
SISTERS OF NAZARETH OF LOS ANGELES$28,000
SALESIAN MISSIONS INC$28,000
ST FRANCIS HOME$28,000
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY$28,000
CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC$28,000
COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA$28,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - USCCB$28,000
CASA TERESA INC$28,000
ROSARY ACADEMY$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $14k → 8%WELLS OF LIFE INC: $14k → 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $14k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $13k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $12k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $12k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $12k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $42k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $28k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $26k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $24k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $24k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $14k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $24k → 14%LAURA'S HOUSE: $14k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $13k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $12k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 37 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
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Total granted

$4.6M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-18%

Still filing today

43%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthEducationInternationalArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TA
    THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $308k · revenue +58%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +10%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN BOSCO HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN ORCHESTRA EUROPA
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Little Sisters of the Poor Palatine St Josephs Home for the Elderly

The little sisters of the poor operate st. joseph's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france…

Human Services
2
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
3
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
4
St John's Rehabilitation Hospital and Nursing Center Inc

St. john's rehabilitation hospital provides nursing and rehabilitation services to individuals of all faiths, regardless of any individuals' ability to pay for services, including routine and ancillary care, in support of the archiocese of…

Health
5
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

6
Villa Mary Immaculate

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Health
7
St Anne's Nursing Center St Anne's Residence Inc

The organization provides nursing and assisted care to individuals of all faiths regardless of ability to pay.

Health
8
St Jude House Inc

MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…

Housing & Shelter
9
Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago St Mary's Home

The little sisters of the poor operate st. mary's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in…

10
Sancta Maria Hospital Inc

Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…

11
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged

The little sisters of the poor provide nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the organization is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in 1839 and serves the…

Health
12
Saint Joseph Villa

The mission of saint joseph villa is rooted in the mission of the sisters of st. joseph who founded and sponsor the villa. the sisters' mission of uniting people with god and with one another is the primary focus of the staff at the villa.…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa and the most unlike its peers is The Bridge Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Animal Rescue and AdoptionSubstance Abuse TreatmentIndependent K-8 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Senior LivingChild and Family ServicesPregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%53%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,952

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JESUITS WEST PROVINCE — $600,000 · OtherJESUITS WEST PROVINCESANTA TERESITA MEDICAL CENTER — $308,000 · OtherSANTA TERESITA MEDICAL CENTERST MICHAEL'S ABBEY AND SCHOOL — $198,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S ABBEY AND SCHOOLBELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $154,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $154,000 · OtherSISTERS OF NAZARETH OF LOS ANGELES — $154,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE TRUST — $154,000 · OtherCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC — $154,000 · OtherSALESIAN MISSIONS INC — $154,000 · OtherSERVITE HIGH SCHOOL — $120,000 · OtherMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE — $120,000 · Other+18 more — $1,006,500 · Other+18 moreCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $168,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…CASA TERESA INC — $154,000 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $77,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS …LAURA'S HOUSE — $65,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOU…+1 more — $14,000 · Human ServicesTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $308,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $231,000 · InternationalTHE NAPA INSTITUTE — $65,000 · ReligionSPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC — $51,000 · ReligionSpitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute — $38,500 · ReligionJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $120,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR LOS ANGELES — $52,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN VIANNEY CENTER — $39,000 · Health
Other$3,276,500Human Services$478,000Education$308,000International$231,000Religion$154,500Arts & Culture$120,000Health$91,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $308,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $231,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $168,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TRUST — $154,000 over 6y, 85% of budgetCASA TERESA INC — $154,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND — $77,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $77,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NAPA INSTITUTE — $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR LOS ANGELES — $52,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC — $51,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSAINT JOHN VIANNEY CENTER — $39,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $38,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSpitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute — $38,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $38,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWELLS OF LIFE INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE TRUST
  • Who funds CASA TERESA INC
  • Who funds JUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds XAVIER SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE
  • Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR LOS ANGELES
  • Who funds SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN VIANNEY CENTER
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
  • Who funds Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute
  • Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY17.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Levecke Family Foundation · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization McDonald Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McDonald Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McDonald Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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