· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ACTIV8 SPORTS INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +87% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- DMDAYSPRING MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Americas Kids Belong ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Conversations ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds The Potter's Wheel Inc ↗
- Who funds NARROW DOOR ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIV8 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Morning Star Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds TREELINE PASS 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McDonnell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDonnell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to McDonnell Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to McDonnell 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.
Play a game based on McDonnell Family’s filings →