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The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$110,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$5.5M
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 Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family 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.

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RenewedFirst-time

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

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EnvironmentOther
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 arriving11$1.3M0%
FY202410$1.3M0%
FY202310$1.3M20%
FY202212$1.4M0%
FY202114$1.6M29%
FY202015$1.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.7MEnvironment$2.5MHealth$1.4MScience & Tech$615kYouth Development$550kHousing & Shelter$465kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kCivil Rights$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MA
VA
TN
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$1,448,73863%
Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park Inc$1,173,387613%
The Morton Arboretum$900,00061%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry$615,00060%
Heart of New England Council Bsa Inc$550,00067%
University of Chicago$500,00040%
Bridge Communities Inc$465,00062%
St Aloysius Catholic School Inc$425,0003n/a
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$200,00021%
The American Chestnut Foundation$184,46023%
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All grantees of The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$1,448,73863%
Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park Inc$1,173,387613%
The Morton Arboretum$900,00061%
Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry$615,00060%
Heart of New England Council Bsa Inc$550,00067%
University of Chicago$500,00040%
Bridge Communities Inc$465,00062%
St Aloysius Catholic School Inc$425,0003n/a
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$200,00021%
The American Chestnut Foundation$184,46023%
Beloit College$150,00010%
Institute for Humane Studies$100,00020%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$97,00060%
Young America's Foundation$50,00010%
Belmont University$50,00010%
St Joseph High School$25,0001n/a
Northern Illinois Food Bank$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $1,448,738 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetFriends of the Virgin Islands National Park Inc: $1,173,387 over 6y, 13% of budgetThe Morton Arboretum: $900,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $615,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHeart of New England Council Bsa Inc: $550,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Communities Inc: $465,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe American Chestnut Foundation: $184,460 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBeloit College: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAll Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc: $97,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 15.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation

How much does The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation give?
The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,343,387 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Environment (29%), Health (17%).
Who are The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation ($1.4M), Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park Inc ($1.2M), The Morton Arboretum ($900k).
Does The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family 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 Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation based?
The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family 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 21 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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