· Private foundation
MGN Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| SPECTRUM INC | $5,000 |
| PHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WARRIORS RENEWAL COALITION INC | $5,000 |
| YOUTH ON THEIR OWN | $4,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC | $3,000 |
| FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC | $3,000 |
| GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT | $2,500 |
| JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCORPORATED | $2,500 |
| QUANTUM HOUSE INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF VETERANS INC | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $2,500 |
| JOHN W GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of MGN Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BPBUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +95%
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +215%- CPCRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +52%
Funded once
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +112%- LOLight of the World Clinic Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -18%
- ALA LEG TO STAND ON INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…
The mission of maine paws for veterans, inc. is to provide service dog training and support to veterans with military-related post-traumatic stress.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…
To assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horses Help Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS RENEWAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OUTREACH CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Street Dog Coalition ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds Light of the World Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds PHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE ABIDES ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds A LEG TO STAND ON 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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · AEC Trust · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Early Christian Church-Charities · Duncan John G Tuw · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · The Kerr Foundation Inc
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 organization MGN 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Community Hope Inc — 41% of income from government
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Warriors Helping Warriors — 18% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Craftsbury Public Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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