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The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$110,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$250,000
FRIENDS OF VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK$198,387
ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL$125,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$125,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY$120,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$110,000
THE MORTON ARBORETUM$100,000
HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA$100,000
THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION$100,000
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC$85,000
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS$30,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $175k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $149k → 12%NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100k → 10%BELOIT COLLEGE: $150k → 10%THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $85k → 7%ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH: $175k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $110k → 12%NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100k → 10%THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $84k → 12%BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $80k → 7%PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 12%BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $75k → 7%PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 12%PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $125k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 12%PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $125k → 11%PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $249k → 14%HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA: $100k → 11%THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $225k → 7%PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA: $100k → 11%THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $175k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOLARSHIP: $125k → 14%HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA: $100k → 11%THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $150k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOLARSHIP: $125k → 14%HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA: $100k → 11%THE MORTON AEBORETUM: $150k → 7%HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA: $80k → 11%THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $100k → 7%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $120k → 14%THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $100k → 7%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $120k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $100k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $125k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSORSHIP: $100k → 14%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
WI
MA
VA
TN
NC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 15 repeat orgs$385k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$8.0M
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+31%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +63%
  • TM
    THE MORTON ARBORETUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $900k · revenue +100%
  • KC
    Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
    6× · 2020–2025 · $615k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BELOIT COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSORSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +5%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
8
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK INC: $1,173,387 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NAT…THE MORTON ARBORETUM: $900,000 · EnvironmentTHE MORTON ARBORETUMNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INCTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $184,460 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $559,398 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSST ALOYSIUS CHURCH: $475,000 · OtherST ALOYSIUS CHURCHST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL INC: $425,000 · OtherST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL I…UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOLARSHIP: $325,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH S…Institute for Humane Studies: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSORSHIP: $100,000 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $97,000 · Other+3 more: $85,000 · OtherPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,448,738 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS …University of Chicago: $500,000 · EducationUniversit…BELOIT COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationBELOIT CO…Belmont University: $50,000 · EducationBelmont U…Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $615,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC: $550,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $465,000 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$2,457,847Other$2,166,398Health$1,448,738Education$700,000Arts & Culture$615,000Youth Development$550,000Housing & Shelter$465,000

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

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
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.

  • Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF NEW ENGLAND COUNCIL BSA INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chuck and Monica McQuaid Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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