· Private foundation
The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hamot Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| St Martin Center Inc | $40,000 |
| Sarah A Reed Children's Center | $40,000 |
| Community Shelter Services | $17,000 |
| Erie Philharmonic Inc | $15,000 |
| Erie Civic Theatre Association | $15,000 |
| Bayfront NATO Inc | $10,000 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $10,000 |
| Booker T Washington Center | $10,000 |
| Community Blood Bank of Erie County | $10,000 |
| Emmaus Ministries Soup Kitchen | $5,000 |
| Build Better Fields | $5,000 |
| Erie City Mission | $5,000 |
| Early Connections Inc | $5,000 |
| Ella Cochran Food Pantry | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSt Martin Center6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +28%
- EPErie Philharmonic Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +48%
- ECERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SHSecond Harvest Food Bankone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ACACHIEVEMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +18%
- EAERIE ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +65%
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.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…
To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.
A non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, enhancement, and sustainable development of the lake erie watershed in pennsylvania.
The mission is to establish nurturing and sustained relationships with individuals, families and community stakeholders to foster growth, self-efficancy and independence by providing innovative evidenced based treatment focused on a whole…
To focus all available local, state, private and federal resources upon the goal of enabling low income families and low income individual of all ages to obtain the skills knowledge and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for…
Community Access Media allows individuals access to the tools of media production, training, the space and the channel to address the needs of this community.
The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce
Promote economic growth, education and job training opportunities, and enhance the quality of life in distressed, low-income neighborhoods in the urban erie area - minority & low-income individuals served.
Erie homes for children and adults operates as a private, non-profit agency providing programs for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 SARAH A REED CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Martin Center ↗
- Who funds Erie Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds ERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOOKER T WASHINGTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAYFRONT NATO INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Shelter Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILD BETTER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · The Britton Family Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Merwin Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Northwest Charitable Foundation · McBrier Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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