· Private foundation
McDougal Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k5 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $980k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Movement Voter Project | $1,500,000 |
| University of Chicago | $300,000 |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | $150,000 |
| Embarc | $100,000 |
| NewRoot Learning Institute | $100,000 |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | $100,000 |
| Windward Fund | $100,000 |
| Surge Institute | $75,000 |
| Cleveland Water Alliance | $75,000 |
| UChicago Urban Education Institute | $60,000 |
| Chicago Public Education Fund | $60,000 |
| River Alliance of Wisconsin | $60,000 |
| Environmental Law & Policy Center | $50,000 |
| Friends of the Chicago River | $50,000 |
| Save the Dunes Conservation Fund, Inc. | $40,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Chicago3× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M
- AFAlliance for the Great Lakes4× · 2020–2023 · $610k
- MPMetropolitan Planning Council4× · 2020–2023 · $410k
Funded once
- TFTides Foundationone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- CACleveland Avenue Foundation for Educationone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- CFChildren First Fundone grant, 2020 · $675k
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 chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
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The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…
The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.
To educate and inspire the next generation of problem solvers.
We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 50 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.
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- Who funds NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds The 5 Gyres Institute ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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