· Private foundation
McDonald Family Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry | $10,000 |
| House of Bread | $5,000 |
| Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation | $5,000 |
| Eversight | $5,000 |
| Greater Hartford Legal Aid Foundation | $5,000 |
| Hartford Stage | $5,000 |
| South Park Inn | $4,000 |
| Glastonbury Rotary Club | $4,000 |
| Greater Hartford Salvation Army | $4,000 |
| Oak Hill School | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ImmaCare Inc | $3,000 |
| Prudence Crandell Center | $3,000 |
| Plainville Community Food Pantry | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $47k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of McDonald Family Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +61%
- GHGREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +39%
- FGFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- FFidelcoone grant, 2024 · $5k
- GRGlastonbury Rotary Club Foundationone grant, 2024 · $4k
- OLOld Lyme Lions Clubone grant, 2024 · $3k
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 connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
To provide and promote wellness and independence to ensure optimal quality of life for the people we serve.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The mutual housing association of greater hartford, inc. develops and manages affordable housing in greater hartford while engaging residents in leadership and educational opportunities.
Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.
The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 FRANCISCAN CENTER FOR URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARTFORD LEGAL AID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds IMMACARE INC ↗
- Who funds Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Noah Webster House Inc ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Manes and Motions Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VISION HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hospital For Special Care ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Journey Home Inc · Clsj Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McDonald Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDonald Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation: 77% of income from government
- Immacare Inc: 52% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: 49% of income from government
- Noah Webster House Inc: 46% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc: 30% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc: 29% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
- Lawyers for Children America Inc: 19% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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