· Private foundation
The Donna J Macmillan and Cargill Macmillan Jr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,225,957 |
| PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY | $25,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $25,000 |
| CHAPEL HILL ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| ANGEL VIEW | $25,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MCCALLUM THEATRE | $25,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COUNTY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE DESERT | $25,000 |
| TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM5× · 2017–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +14%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center5× · 2017–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +94%
- FIFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- COCollege of the Desert Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +71%
- WAWALKER ART CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $126k · revenue +87%
- CTChildren's Theatre Company and Schoolone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.
The children's discovery museum of the desert is a valuable community resource for children and families to experience the joy of learning about themselves and the world around them. the museum inspires personal growth by engaging…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Pleroma Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COUNTY PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Desert ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Coral Mountain Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Angel View Inc ↗
- Who funds TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Byfield Community Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Midland Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLUEFIN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds DESERT AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Medical Care Development Inc ↗
- Who funds PLEROMA INC ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Measure Austin ↗
- Who funds Southside Youth Outreach ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Charity Works
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Donna J Macmillan and Cargill Macmillan Jr Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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