· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $603k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESUITS WEST PROVINCE | $100,000 |
| SANTA TERESITA MEDICAL CENTER | $56,000 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $56,000 |
| NPH USA | $42,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY AND SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC | $28,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOME | $28,000 |
| SISTERS OF NAZARETH OF LOS ANGELES | $28,000 |
| CASA TERESA INC | $28,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - USCCB | $28,000 |
| SALESIAN MISSIONS INC | $28,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA | $28,000 |
| BRIDGE TRUST | $28,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $28,000 |
| SERVITE HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 42 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 THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TRUST ↗
- 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 Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McDonald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDonald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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