California · Private foundation
Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2
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.
- $96k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,010
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $96k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $68k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $110k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $65k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $58k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $68k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $37k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Is Fundamental Inc | $46,500 | 8 | 0% |
| FEAST Inc | $25,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Center for Land-Based Learning | $24,792 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $23,010 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Wunderglo Foundation | $16,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $15,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Martha's Table Inc | $14,459 | 8 | 0% |
| New Futures | $14,045 | 7 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $13,043 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2
- How much does Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 give?
- Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 reported 31 grants totaling $96,287 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (20%), International (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Reading Is Fundamental Inc ($47k), FEAST Inc ($25k), Center for Land-Based Learning ($25k).
- Does Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 based?
- Robert & Margaret McNamara Foundation 2 is based in CA.
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