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Ronald L McDaniel Foundation at a glance

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Ronald L McDaniel 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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$3.8MYouth Development$3.1MArts & Culture$2.0MScience & Tech$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHuman Services$826kHealth$418kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANLEY W HAYES RESEARCH FDN INC$1,500,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAYNE COUNTY$550,000
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES$300,000
DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$300,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$250,000
LOAVES AND FISHES$150,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$100,000
ROSS COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
GIRLS INC OF WAYNE COUNTY$100,000
PEOPLES RESOURCE CENTER$100,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$100,000
CENTERFPRINDEPENDENCETHROUGH CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
EASTER SEALS OF DUPAGE$75,000
NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY & YOUTH$60,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $416k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $100k → 8%TURN AWAY NO LONGER: $15k → 15%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $8k → 14%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICE: $53k → 7%SHARING CONNECTIONS: $35k → 7%BIRTH TO FIVE INC: $20k → 18%LET IT BE US: $25k → 14%BRIGHTER PATH: $10k → 18%LOAVES AND FISHES: $150k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 29 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
18

Total granted

$13M
$426k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+63%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SW
    STANLEY W HAYES RESEARCH FDN INC AKA HAYES ARBORETUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +429% · 59% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +57%
  • DC
    DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • C
    CASA
    one grant, 2019 · $70k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • FS
    Family Shelter Service Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +55%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc

We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.

Human Services
2
Partners with Families and Children Spokane

Our mission is to prevent, interrupt and repair cycles of abuse and neglect within families.Our vision is safe children, healthy families, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services
5
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
6
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
7
Family Central Inc

To provide services to improve the quality of life for children and families.

Human Services
8
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
9
The Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn

The children's center of cicero-berwyn, inc. is a community-based child care program composed of nine day care sites providing pre-school and school age day care and child development programs in the berwyn and cicero, illinois communities.

Human Services
10
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
11
Community Connections for Children Inc

Ccc connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life.

Human Services
12
Healthy Start

Healthy Start is a Sponsoring Organization for the Child and Adult Care Food Program of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education in Illinois. Healthy Start passes Federal funds to eligible child…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hunger Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stanley W Hayes Research Fdn Inc Aka Hayes Arboretum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 80 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STANLEY W HAYES RESEARCH FDN INC AKA HAYES ARBORETUM: $5,533,184 · OtherSTANLEY W HAYES RESEARCH FDN INC AKA HAYES ARBORETUMBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $2,674,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTYWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $569,200 · Other+45 more: $1,957,500 · Other+45 moreDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,681,500 · Arts & CultureDUPAGE CHILDRE…BLACK GIRLS DANCE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureRICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $65,800 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $116,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,100,000 · Housing & ShelterPrescott Area Shelter Services Inc: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesFamily Shelter Service Inc: $53,200 · Human ServicesSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesLET IT BE US: $25,000 · Human ServicesBIRTH TO FIVE INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Human ServicesYAVAPAI CASA FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTURN AWAY NO LONGER INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $17,500 · Human ServicesCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $150,000 · EducationROSS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100,000 · EducationCHINO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationLiteracy DuPage: $39,500 · EducationHumboldt Education Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationGibault Inc: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationRonald McDonald House Global: $250,000 · HealthHigh Country Early Intervention Inc: $20,000 · HealthThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentHorizons for Youth: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentL O T U S: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,733,884Arts & Culture$1,938,300Housing & Shelter$1,180,000Human Services$435,700Education$384,500Health$270,000Youth Development$210,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTANLEY W HAYES RESEARCH FDN INC AKA HAYES ARBORETUM: $5,533,184 over 7y, 59% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $2,674,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,681,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,100,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $569,200 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WAYNE COUNTY: $125,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Launch Pad Teen Center: $100,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetPrescott Area Shelter Services Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HUNGER PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBLACK GIRLS DANCE: $75,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetRICHMOND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $65,800 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetRICHMOND CIVIC THEATRE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetFamily Shelter Service Inc: $53,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLawrence Hall: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHCS FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons for Youth: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHINO VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLiteracy DuPage: $39,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSHARING CONNECTIONS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCIRCLE YOU HELP CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLET IT BE US: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAMIGOS THE RICHMOND LATINO CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLittle Heroes League: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHigh Country Early Intervention Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBIRTH TO FIVE INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetYAVAPAI CASA FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTURN AWAY NO LONGER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHumboldt Education Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPRESCOTT COMMUNITY CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGibault Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEENWORKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN DUPAGE SRA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetL O T U S: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBRIGHTER PATH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

First Bank Richmond I…The Paul W Lingle Fam…Quigg Fund IncWayne County Indiana …The Dupage Community …The Stamm Koechlein F…Topfer Family Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Yavapai Community Hos…United Way of Whitewa…Margaret T Morris Fou…Dr Scholl Foundation
First Bank Richmond Inc Community FoundationIN26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Bank Richmond Inc Community Foundation · The Paul W Lingle Family Foundation · Quigg Fund Inc · Wayne County Indiana Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Stamm Koechlein Family Foundation co Monica Koechlein · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Yavapai Community Hospital Association Dba Yavapai Regional Medical Center · United Way of Whitewater Valley Inc · Margaret T Morris Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ronald L McDaniel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald L McDaniel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ronald L McDaniel 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.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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