· Private foundation
Michael and Renee Minogue Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $295k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $500,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHEDRAL | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| MEDTECH AND BIOTECH VETERANS - MVP | $225,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $70,000 |
| WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES (USMA) | $25,000 |
| VISITATION PARISH | $20,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $20,000 |
| NE PATRIOTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BISHOP FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SCHOOL THE WORLD | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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 33% of Michael and Renee Minogue 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. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
- MBMedTech & BioTech Veterans Program Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $764k · revenue +18% · 71% of their budget
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $749k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- CCCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINEone grant, 2022 · $300k
- TTTHE TERMEER INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +304%
- BOBANK OF AMERICA DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2017 · $85k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 105 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MedTech & BioTech Veterans Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds THE TERMEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds Taylor University ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE TUTORIALS INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL THE WORLD 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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation
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 Michael and Renee Minogue 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
- Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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