Texas · Private foundation
Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust
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.
- $427k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $407k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $335k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $325k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $298k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $285k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $270k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $230k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $230k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archway Academy | $255,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Remind | $245,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Menninger Clinic | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Council on Recovery | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| El Centro de Corazon | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Open Door Mission | $125,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bo's Place | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Counseling Connections for Change Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| TGP Public Schools | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archway Academy | $255,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Remind | $245,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Menninger Clinic | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Council on Recovery | $185,000 | 9 | 0% |
| El Centro de Corazon | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Open Door Mission | $125,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Bo's Place | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Counseling Connections for Change Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| TGP Public Schools | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Soleana Stables | $57,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Teen & Family Services | $47,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Passages Inc | $46,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Be Peace - Be Hope | $40,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Sharpen Recovery | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Full Circle Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Warrior Counseling Works Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Houston Achievement Place | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Easter Seals of Greater Houston Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($729k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust 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 Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust
- How much does Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust give?
- Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $427,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Human Services (16%), Education (16%).
- Who are Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Archway Academy ($255k), Remind ($245k), The Menninger Clinic ($200k).
- Does Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust 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 Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Marek Family Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust based?
- Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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