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The Donald McNeeley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
59%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$994k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations The Donald McNeeley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$58k50%
FY202317$54k59%
FY202210$23kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$44kHuman Services$15kInternational$11kHealth$11kRecreation & Sports$11kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
VA
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Donald McNeeley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Humanitarian Service Project$11,47921%
Build Each Other Up NFP$10,00017%
South Bend Youth Hockey Inc$10,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$3,00010%
National Pku Alliance Inc$2,00010%
Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc$1,00010%
Hinsdale Humane Society$1,00010%
People's Resource Center$54110%
4 Kids Sake Inc$4711n/a
McKendree University$20020%
Crystal Lake South High School Booster Club$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Donald McNeeley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Humanitarian Service Project: $11,479 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBuild Each Other Up NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSouth Bend Youth Hockey Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Pku Alliance Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHinsdale Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeople's Resource Center: $541 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcKendree University: $200 over 2y, 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 9.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Donald McNeeley Foundation

How much does The Donald McNeeley Foundation give?
The Donald McNeeley Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $57,523 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Donald McNeeley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (11%), International (9%).
Who are The Donald McNeeley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Humanitarian Service Project ($11k), Build Each Other Up NFP ($10k), South Bend Youth Hockey Inc ($10k).
Does The Donald McNeeley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Donald McNeeley 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 Donald McNeeley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Donald McNeeley Foundation based?
The Donald McNeeley 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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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