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· Private foundation
MCGUINN FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$100k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
5
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$651kArts & Culture$159kFood & Nutrition$66kHealth$11kOther$357k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
education
2019
education
2020
education
2021
education
2022
educationtreatment
2023
educational benefit
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$50,000
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE$10,000
- UNITY HEALTHCARE$7,500
- INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY$7,000
- ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION A$5,000
- MORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
- CORNERSONTE FAMILY PROGRAMS$5,000
- VISION LOSS ALLIANCE$5,000
- MAYO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$3,000
- ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION B$2,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$632k · 16 repeat orgs$613k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
7
Total granted
$632k
$588k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+41%
+31%
Still filing today
50%
14%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
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
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +41%
- DCDC CENTRAL KITCHEN7× · 2017–2023 · $93k · revenue +155%
- CUCARLOW UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +31%
- CMCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CICHILDREN'S INSTITUTE - CAMP SUCCESSone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Monmouth University Inc
Monmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education (continued on sch. o) committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service.
Education
2
Saint Peter's University
To educate a diverse community of learners to excel, lead, serve and promote justice.
Education
3
The University of Toledo Foundation
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance the university of toledo through fundraising, stewardship, and prudent asset management to provide scholarship opportunities for students, tier one athletic programs, education events…
Education
4
Georgetown University
Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.
Education
5
Stevenson University
The university is an independent coeducational four-year university, which offers master's, bachelor's, and associate's degrees to approx. 3,000 full time equiv students.
Education
6
University of New Haven
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Education
7
University of Denver
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Education
8
University of Dayton
The university of dayton is a top-tier catholic research university with academic offerings from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels. we are a diverse community committed, in the marianist tradition, to educating the whole person and…
Education
9
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.
Education
10
Salus University
Advancing integrated health care through innovative education, research and clinical services
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11
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Community Improvement
12
Furman University
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Morristown Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$651,000Other$357,000Arts & Culture$159,000Food & Nutrition$66,000Health$11,000
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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds DC CENTRAL KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MORRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH STREET THEATER COMPANY 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.
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation MCGUINN 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 236298448 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to McGuinn Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to McGuinn Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines