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McDonnell Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL IN FOSTERING FUTURES | $100,000 |
| MILLION KIDS | $50,000 |
| KINGDOM CONVERSATIONS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE | $5,000 |
| ACTIV8 SPORTS INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +87% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +75%
- MHMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 226× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +178%
- AIAll In Empowering Futures Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +87% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- CICHILDHELP INCone grant, 2021 · $56k · revenue -6%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD ASSEMBLY OF GODone grant, 2021 · $30k
- TWTHE WELLSPRING CHURCH CVone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Meeting with special needs families, provide training to teachers in order to advise and consult special needs families, conduct meetings to discuss organizational needs and training to expand ministry and reach. Provide content and…
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
Finding forever homes for children
Beautiful redemption is the bridge between the faith community and meeting the needs of foster children. we connect the faith community to requests that come from the desk of dhs and the system we use is the only one of its kind. we speak…
We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources.
Through providing a coordinated family of services aimed at meeting the special needs of this group of young people, aged-out foster youth, Angel Reach is first committed to assuring the safety and security of all children and youth in…
KidZ at Heart International is a global Christian community that trains, partners with, and mobilizes networks of leaders to help children fall deeply in love with Jesus. We train and partner with churches and families to successfully…
A family for every child in our lifetime.
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Conversations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 ↗
- Who funds Million Kids ↗
- Who funds All In Empowering Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds LIMB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTHY ME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Americas Kids Belong ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Conversations ↗
- Who funds The Potter's Wheel Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIV8 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds NARROW DOOR ↗
- Who funds Morning Star Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds TREELINE PASS 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 McDonnell 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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