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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $308k · revenue +58%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +10%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SMST MICHAEL'S ABBEYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SJST JOHN BOSCO HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TATHE AMERICAN ORCHESTRA EUROPAone grant, 2024 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
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…
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…
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…
The organization provides nursing and assisted care to individuals of all faiths regardless of ability to pay.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
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.
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