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McGlynn 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.

$820k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.8MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$1.2MPhilanthropy$635kHousing & Shelter$591kReligion$438kPublic Safety & Disaster$182kFood & Nutrition$147kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $444k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE$85,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$75,000
MAYO CLINIC$70,000
BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION$50,000
ANNUNCIATION CHURCH AND SCHOOL$40,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$34,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$30,000
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$26,000
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$25,000
COLORADO SEMINARY$25,000
SHARING AND CARING HANDS$25,000
ST JUDE OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH$20,000
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $607k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WISHES & MORE: $5k → 7%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $22k → 11%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $5k → 14%LETTERS OF LOVE: $3k → 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF SAINT PAUL: $100k → 14%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 10%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $25k → 10%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF SAINT PAUL: $80k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF SAINT PAUL: $50k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF SAINT PAUL: $25k → 14%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF SAINT PAUL: $10k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $4k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $4k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $4k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $3k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $3k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $3k → 14%BREAKING FREE: $2k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $25k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $25k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $25k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $25k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $25k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $20k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $10k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $6k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $6k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES INC: $5k → 11%BRIGHTER DAYS GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 11%BRIGHTER DAYS GRIEF CENTER: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 73 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
47

Total granted

$5.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+39%

Still filing today

66%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $562k · revenue +205%
  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +24%
  • NF
    NMDP FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $427k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT
    one grant, 2017 · $305k · revenue -5%
  • SC
    ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +6%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
7
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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9
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
10
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Operation Open Arms Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 131 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
61/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STJOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $311,000 · OtherSTJOHN'S UNIVERSITYLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $213,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN RED CROSS: $182,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSDE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $135,000 · OtherCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING: $125,000 · OtherCOLORADO SEMINARY: $125,000 · OtherPERSPECTIVES INC: $125,000 · Other+73 more: $1,411,000 · Other+73 moreCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $305,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF SAINT B…ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVE…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $190,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEG…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $143,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUN…CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $110,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S FOUNDAT…Breck School: $73,500 · EducationBreck SchoolUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $117,500 · Education+6 moreNMDP FOUNDATION: $427,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATIONGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $227,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CIT…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $107,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUN…YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB…The United Way of Lee County Inc: $77,000 · PhilanthropyThe United Way o…NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $47,000 · PhilanthropyHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $540,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETT…MAYO CLINIC: $234,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICGILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC: $30,000 · Health+8 more: $50,000 · Health+8 moreLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST PAUL: $265,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SI…SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesSHARING A…THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHELT…Hammer Residences Inc: $51,500 · Human ServicesHammer Re…Breaking Free Inc: $23,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $21,802 · Human Services+6 more: $31,000 · Human ServicesST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $561,500 · Housing & ShelterST MATTHE…SHELTER INC: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $129,000 · International
Other$2,827,000Education$1,189,000Philanthropy$1,032,500Health$854,000Human Services$612,302Housing & Shelter$584,000International$129,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $561,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $540,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $427,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT: $305,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST PAUL: $265,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $234,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $227,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $190,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $143,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $129,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $110,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $107,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $77,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBreck School: $73,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEAMWOMENMN: $56,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetNAMI MINNESOTA: $52,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHammer Residences Inc: $51,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $42,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERSET COUNTRY CLUB: $34,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS: $33,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Junior League of Saint Paul Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetThe Lift Garage: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBreaking Free Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $21,802 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION OPEN ARMS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WAGR SYNDROME ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budget
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 ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Breck School ↗
  • Who funds TEAMWOMENMN ↗
  • Who funds NAMI MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds Hammer Residences Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN34.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Mithun Family Foundation · Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McGlynn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McGlynn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • South Shore Peer Recovery Inc: 71% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to McGlynn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McGlynn 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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