· Private foundation
McIntosh 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Boat Company | $1,772,456 |
| Southeast Alaska Food Security Fund - Juneau Community Fund | $200,000 |
| Alaska Conservation Foundation | $100,000 |
| EarthJustice | $50,000 |
| EarthJustice | $50,000 |
| Juneau Community Foundation | $50,000 |
| SportMatrix Corp | $50,000 |
| Rachel's Network | $25,000 |
| Pan Am Museum Foundation | $12,000 |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EARTHJUSTICE7× · 2017–2025 · $825k · revenue +82%- RNRACHEL'S NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +84%
- SLSOUTHERN LEGAL COUNSEL INC3× · 2018–2020 · $309k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- OAOutpost Agriculture Incone grant, 2021 · $600k
- HPHELPMAN PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2018 · $175k · revenue -100% · 92% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Florida Center for Government Responsibilityone grant, 2018 · $160k
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
To build political support for advancing the goals of the natural resources defense council.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To enable understanding and forecasting of the impacts of climate change, land-use change, and invasive species on continental-scale ecology by providing support for infrastructure and consistent methodologies to support research and…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 94 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 The Boat Company Ltd ↗
- Who funds SPORTMATRIX CORP ↗
- Who funds OUTPOST AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN LEGAL COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMAN PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE BULLDOGS BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERFALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds HEROICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARTH DAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LEARNING ACCELERATOR ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ENERGY INNOVATION REFORM PROJECT ↗
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Communal Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McIntosh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McIntosh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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