Massachusetts · Private foundation
The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $985k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $4.1M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $3.6M | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester Art Museum | $11,200,000 | 9 | 17% |
| American Antiquarian Society | $3,000,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Worcester County Horticultural Society | $1,500,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Worcester Historical Museum | $1,010,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Worcester Natural History Society Inc | $916,655 | 1 | 14% |
| Music Worcester Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Worcester Cultural Coaltioninc | $300,000 | 3 | 57% |
| Artsworcester Inc | $100,500 | 3 | 7% |
| New Garden Park Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Abby Kelley Foster House Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 25 grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Wyman Gordon · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Tonna Charitable Trust · The George I Alden Trust · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation
- How much does The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation give?
- The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (79%), Environment (11%), Health (1%).
- Who are The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Worcester Art Museum ($11M), American Antiquarian Society ($3.0M), Worcester County Horticultural Society ($1.5M).
- Does The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable 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 The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation, The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation, Stoddard Charitable Trust.
- Where is The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation based?
- The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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