· Private foundation
Steve and Sharron Macdonald Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $745k
- $250k+5 grants · $7.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,100,000 |
| HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,561,674 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $700,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $402,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $400,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| STANDUP FOR KIDS - OCEANSIDE CHAPTER | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOPE CHEST | $100,000 |
| PROMSIES2KIDS | $75,000 |
| KATHY'S LEGACY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK - MIDLAND | $50,000 |
| COP LINE | $50,000 |
| TUNNEL 2 TOWERS | $50,000 |
| DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
JUDICIAL WATCH INC2× · 2019–2020 · $720k · revenue +40%- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $400k · revenue +75%
- GNGENERAL NEEDS LTD3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- OGOLD GLOBE THEATREone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -65%
- SDSAN DIEGO COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +34%
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 primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Hope Chest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOPE CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GENERAL NEEDS LTD ↗
- Who funds SCDRINC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COPLINE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD GLOBE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO COUNTY DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CMT Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
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: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Steve and Sharron Macdonald Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.