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Ronald D & Regina C McNeil 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.

$59k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,300
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$938k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$59k21%
FY202418$91k56%
FY202313$34k46%
FY20229$40k44%
FY20219$47k44%
FY20209$158k33%
FY201912$156k42%
FY201816$55k69%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$376kEducation$244kHuman Services$76kArts & Culture$39kInternational$9kFood & Nutrition$9kRecreation & Sports$6kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$371,723848%
Lanai Community Association$65,00058%
Michigan State University$62,7754n/a
The Historymakers$32,50050%
George Fox University$18,95030%
Central Michigan University$15,5955n/a
University of San Francisco$15,09130%
Siena University$10,00010%
Menlo College$9,42010%
University of Washington$8,7503n/a
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$371,723848%
Lanai Community Association$65,00058%
Michigan State University$62,7754n/a
The Historymakers$32,50050%
George Fox University$18,95030%
Central Michigan University$15,5955n/a
University of San Francisco$15,09130%
Siena University$10,00010%
Menlo College$9,42010%
University of Washington$8,7503n/a
Kenyon College$8,50120%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$8,00060%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College$6,00020%
University of San Diego$5,00020%
International Communication Association Inc$5,0001n/a
Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy$2,66410%
Hawaii Pacific University$2,50010%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$1,03210%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$1,00010%
Detroit Historical Society$87030%
Willow Creek Community Church Inc$5001n/a
Respiratory Health Association$50010%
Norphans Inc$2501n/a
Legacy Redevelopment Corporation$25010%
United Negro College Fund Inc$25010%
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management$20010%
Allendale Association$20020%
March of Dimes Inc$10310%
JDC Foundation Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $371,723 over 8y, 48% of budgetLanai Community Association: $65,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetThe Historymakers: $32,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGeorge Fox University: $18,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $15,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSiena University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenlo College: $9,420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenyon College: $8,501 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFederation of State Boards of Physical Therapy: $2,664 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaii Pacific University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $1,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRespiratory Health Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Redevelopment Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest Graduate School of Management: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllendale Association: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJDC Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Baxter International FoundationIL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baxter International Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation

How much does Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation give?
Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $58,832 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (49%), Education (32%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($372k), Lanai Community Association ($65k), Michigan State University ($63k).
Does Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation 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 Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baxter International Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation based?
Ronald D & Regina C McNeil Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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