· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH BEND YOUTH HOCKEY | $10,000 |
| FABRICATORS & MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BUILD EACH OTHER UP | $10,000 |
| PENFED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS | $1,332 |
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $541 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGUARDIAN ANGELS3× · 2022–2024 · $14k
- THTHE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +37%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $7k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TWTHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICALone grant, 2023 · $5k
- JLJOHN & LESA WIBERG ENDOWMENTone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…
To strengthen communities through educational dialogue, leadership development, emotional resilience, and intercultural competence programs that help people bridge differences and build trust.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
To serve the underserved through the continual development and growth of programs designed to improve the health of underserved and disadvantaged people. in the context of these general purposes, the corporation shall apply for grants or…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Build Each Other Up NFP ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND YOUTH HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds 4 KIDS SAKE INC ↗
- Who funds McKendree University ↗
- Who funds Crystal Lake South High School Booster Club ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donald McNeeley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donald McNeeley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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